tonsilence:

Un regalo de mi papá. #Neruda #DiaDelLibro

thimblebone:

Sonnet 89 by Pablo Neruda

bookofwriting:

Rita Guibert: Do you always write everything in longhand?

Pablo Neruda: Ever since I had an accident in which I broke a finger and couldn’t use the typewriter for a few months, I have followed the custom of my youth and gone back to writing by hand. I discovered when my finger was better and I could type again that my poetry when written by hand was more sensitive; its plastic forms could change more easily. In an interview, Robert Graves says that in order to think one should have as little as possible around that is not handmade. He could have added that poetry ought to be written by hand. The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

— The Art of Poetry No. 14 (an interview with Pablo Neruda by Rita Guibert; translated by Ronald Christ), The Paris Review