One day like today: Neruda's poems

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It was the year of 1924, and the world saw the birth of characters as different as Marlon Brando, George Bush and Truman Capote; and in that same year, Jimmy Carter and Marcello Mastroianni were born. At the beginning, all of them, children who did not know what they would do in the future.

But that year, a book came to light that from the beginning was known to have been born big and had come to stay.

That book was appreciated by all the lovers of the world, because it expressed in a new way all the pleasures and pains of love. It was a young voice, of a man of just 20 years old, whose name was Neftalí Reyes, whom the world would later know as Pablo Neruda.

That book was called "Twenty love poems and a desperate song" and said for example:

Twenty Poems of Love and A Song Desperate, was born on a day like today, June 15, 1924.

And that book, since then, was the company of the lovers of the whole world, and continues, and will continue to be so, as long as there is an irrepressible, unstoppable and incomparable force called Love.

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