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What is everyone's favorite poet & poem by them? Mine is "I want you to know one thing" by Pablo Neruda. Though it was very hard to narrow poets and poetry down to a single favorite. ("see more" for whole poem).
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.
But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.
--Pablo Neruda
@NPC He is a wonderful poet. I love the honesty in his poetry, it is so much more real than other love poetry.
What is everyone's favorite poet & poem by them? Mine is "I want you to know one thing" by Pablo Neruda. Though it was very hard to narrow poets and poetry down to a single favorite. ("see more" for whole poem).
@freemo Very good one. Almost impossible to choose a favourite. Maybe this section of Shelley's Epipsychedion: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/e7bd5e05/
Another good candidate is Adelfos, by Manuel Machado. I wrote a translation of that but the original is much better.
#poetry #poem
What is everyone's favorite poet & poem by them? Mine is "I want you to know one thing" by Pablo Neruda. Though it was very hard to narrow poets and poetry down to a single favorite. ("see more" for whole poem).
@freemo I'm far less knowleagable but the one that lands in my thoughts the most is probably The Stolen Child– WB Yeats
What is everyone's favorite poet & poem by them? Mine is "I want you to know one thing" by Pablo Neruda. Though it was very hard to narrow poets and poetry down to a single favorite. ("see more" for whole poem).
@freemo Tennyson's Ulysses. Really twangs at my heartstrings, more so the older I get.
"I cannot rest from travel, I will drink life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those that love me, and alone."
What is everyone's favorite poet & poem by them? Mine is "I want you to know one thing" by Pablo Neruda. Though it was very hard to narrow poets and poetry down to a single favorite. ("see more" for whole poem).
What Work Is, Philip Levine.
re: What is everyone's favorite poet & poem by them? Mine is "I want you to know one thing" by Pablo Neruda. Though it was very hard to narrow poets and poetry down to a single favorite. ("see more" for whole poem).
@freemo
Love's Philosophy, by Shelley! 😃
It was instant love, the first time I read it!
I loved that it is a sincere prayer to the lover, in a simple language, without sounding desperate! 
https://poets.org/poem/loves-philosophy
And then there's If, by Kipling! 👌
re: What is everyone's favorite poet & poem by them? Mine is "I want you to know one thing" by Pablo Neruda. Though it was very hard to narrow poets and poetry down to a single favorite. ("see more" for whole poem).
The vibe (though not entierly the style) reminds me a bit of Poe's Annabel Lee (also one of my favorites.
@freemo
Reading the Poe's poem!
Shame some of these creative geniuses of the 19th and 20th centuries lived such short, but productive (and famous) lives!
Is there a connection? 😛
@strawberryfieldsforever In Poe's case there is a clear connection between his literary genius and his short life. Almost all of his poems and stories either revolve around or at least mention his lost love. It clearly destroyed him and I suspect eventually led to his decline and death, but also to much of the beauty in his works.
@freemo
oh, didn't know that!
and somehow I keep confusing Poe with Hemingway! 😂
Wonder if there's a connection between them! 🤔
@strawberryfieldsforever How in the world could you confuse Poe and Hemmingway, they arent even remotely similar in style or subject matter.
@freemo
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Dunno why I do that! 😁
@strawberryfieldsforever I guess it could be because they were in a similar time period maybe... But poe is like some Gotch chick wearing all black always fixated on death and the morbid... meaninwhile Hemmingway just talks about every day life mostly :)
@freemo
You watched this TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert on Your Elusive Creative Genius?
Here, she talks about the creative process and its effect on the human psyche!
Loved it!
@strawberryfieldsforever Have not, ill check it out when i have a moment to spare.
I really enjoyed that ;__;