From Neruda's poem "Collection":
1. You accompany me through your dreams and tell me when the light will return.
2. Love is so short, but forgetting is so long.
3. Good love makes people become fools, bad love makes people become madmen, and the best love makes people become children.
4. Why do we spend so much time growing up, only to be separated?
5. Love is too short and forgetting is too long.
6. If our poetry has any meaning, it is that it has an unrestrained tendency that refuses to be limited to a certain range and yearns for a larger space. Extended information
There are two themes in Neruda’s life, one is politics and the other is love. His early collection of love poems, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Desperation, is considered one of his most famous works.
Neruda was very interested in China and Chinese culture and had been to China three times in his life. When he took office as a diplomat in Myanmar in 1928, he set out for China to present the Lenin International Peace Prize to Soong Ching Ling. During this trip, he also met Mao Dun, Ding Ling, Ai Qing and other literary celebrities and had friendly exchanges.