Saddest verses/ Pablo Neruda
I can write the saddest verses tonight. Write, for example: “The night is starry, and the stars shiver, blue, in the distance.” The night wind turns in the sky and sings. I can write the saddest verses tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. On nights like this I held […]
Let us create the new man/ Rafael Alberti
Poem by Rafael Alberti; translated by Louis Villalba Rafael Alberti was born next to my hometown—Cadiz, Spain—in Puerto Santamaria. He is considered one of the greatest poets of the XX century. His Marxist views forced him into exile during the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1964. After the death […]
