“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.”

Pablo Neruda was a poet, diplomat, and politician from Chile. The poet's real name was Ricardo Eliécer Neftal Reyes Basoalto, thus this was just an alias.

Since he was 10 years old, Neruda has been writing poems, but his father has never supported his passion for books and writing. He decided to publish his poems under a pen name in order to evade his father's criticism.

Gabriel Garca Márquez, a novelist, referred to Pablo Neruda as "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language" when he was only 20 years old. Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 as a result of his inherent talent and poetic mastery.