Pablo Neruda the great Chilean poet stated in an interview, “Robert Frost says in one of his essays that poetry ought to have sorrow as its only orientation: ‘Leave sorrow alone with poetry.’ But I don’t know what Robert Frost would have thought if a young man had committed suicide and left one of his books stained with blood.”[1]
The book Neruda refers to in this quote is often called The Residencia Cycle but specifically part one of his Residencia en la tierra. It was with this book that Neruda became internationally known and respected as a great new poet in the Spanish language.
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