“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

— Pablo Neruda · Courage quote

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. — Pablo Neruda quote card

Poet and diplomat · 1904 – 1973

Chilean poet and diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1971), celebrated for Twenty Love Poems and the Song of Despair and the epic Canto General. His verses of love, nature and political hope are recited across the Spanish-speaking world.

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