Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines
" Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines " (also known as "Poem 20") is one of the most famous works by the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda . Published in 1924 as part of his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair , the poem was written when Neruda was only 19 years old. Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example,'The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.' The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one I held her in my arms I kissed her again and again under the endless sky. She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too. How could one not have loved her great still eyes. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her. To hear the immense night, still more immense without her. And the verse falls...