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Bella by Pablo Neruda

23/3/2019

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Pablo Neruda with Matilde Urrutia

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), is a Chilean poet, writer, diplomat and politician, but his main legacy was his poetry. He was considered one of the four greatest Chilean poets and on 21 October 1972, he was awarded Nobel Prize of literature
 "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."


Many of Neruda's poems are about love and inspired by the love he feels. During his life time, he had been in love several times, and among all of the women he loved, Matilde Urrutia (1912-1985) was the one he loved the longest and most intensely. 

They met in an outdoor concert the Spring 1946, in Forestal park of Santiago, and for the first 6 years, they had to keep it very secret because Pablo Neruda was living with his second wife Delia del Carril (1885-1989). 

It was not a easy love, but a lasting one, which last until Neruda's death in 1973, and many of the poems Pablo Neruda published after 1950s were inspired by this love, such as  Los versos del capitán,  Cien sonetos de amor, and many poems in books like  Estravagario, La barcarola and El mar y las campanas. 


Bella is one of poems Pablo Neruda wrote for Matilde Urrutia.
​Bella (Spanish)
Bella, 
como en la piedra fresca 
del manantial, el agua 
abre un ancho relámpago de espuma, 
así es la sonrisa en tu rostro, 
bella. 

Bella, 
de finas manos y delgados pies 
como un caballito de plata, 
andando, flor del mundo, 
así te veo, 
bella. 

Bella, 
con un nido de cobre enmarañado 
en tu cabeza, un nido 
color de miel sombría 
donde mi corazón arde y reposa, 
bella. 

Bella, 
no te caben los ojos en la cara, 
no te caben los ojos en la tierra. 
Hay países, hay ríos, 
en tus ojos, 
mi patria está en tus ojos, 
yo camino por ellos, 
ellos dan luz al mundo 
por donde yo camino, 
bella. 

Bella, 
tus senos son como dos panes hechos 
de tierra cereal y luna de oro, 
bella. 

Bella, 
tu cintura 
la hizo mi brazo como un río cuando 
pasó mil años por tu dulce cuerpo, 
bella. 

Bella, 
no hay nada como tus caderas, 
tal vez la tierra tiene 
en algún sitio oculto 
la curva y el aroma de tu cuerpo, 
tal vez en algún sitio, 
bella. 

Bella, mi bella, 
tu voz, tu piel, tus uñas, 
bella, mi bella, 
tu ser, tu luz, tu sombra, 
bella, 
todo eso es mío, bella, 
todo eso es mío, mía, 
cuando andas o reposas, 
cuando cantas o duermes, 
cuando sufres o sueñas, 
siempre, 
cuando estás cerca o lejos, 
siempre, 
eres mía, mi bella, 
siempre.
​
Lovely one (English translation)
Lovely one, 
just as on the cool stone 
of the spring, the water 
opens a wide flash of foam, 
so is the smile of your face, 
lovely one.

Lovely one, 
with delicate hands and slender feet 
like a silver pony, 
walking, flower of the world, 
thus I see you, 
lovely one.

Lovely one, 
with a nest of copper entangled 
on your head, a nest 
the color of dark honey 
where my heart burns and rests, 
lovely one.

Lovely one, 
your eyes are too big for your face, 
your eyes are too big for the earth.

There are countries, there are rivers,
in your eyes, 
my country as In your eyes, 
I walk through them, 
they light the world 
through which I walk, 
lovely one.

Lovely one, 
your breasts are like two loaves made 
of grainy earth and golden moon, 
lovely one.

Lovely one, 
your waist, 
my arm shaped it like a river when 
it flowed a thousand years through your sweet body, 
lovely one.

Lovely one, 
there is nothing like your hips, 
perhaps earth has 
in some hidden place 
the curve and the fragrance of your body, 
perhaps in some place, 
lovely one.

Lovely one, my lovely one, 
your voice, your skin, your nails, 
lovely one, my lovely one, 
your being, your light, your shadow, 
lovely one, 
all that is mine, lovely one, 
all that is mine, my dear, 
when you walk or rest, 
when you sing or sleep, 
when you suffer or dream, 
always, 
when you are near or far,
always, 
you are mine, my lovely one, 
always.
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