Quote by Pablo Neruda: “I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”

Spring doesn't force cherry trees to bloom — it simply creates the conditions for them to become fully, beautifully themselves. This is what profound love looks like: not possession or control, but helping someone else come alive.

Neruda published Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair in 1924, while Chile was navigating the turbulent politics of the Arturo Alessandri presidency and early labor movements. The collection broke with the formalism of the era and introduced an intimate, sensory language of desire that felt radically new in Spanish-language poetry.

Chilean poet and diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, celebrated for his passionate love poetry and politically engaged verse. His collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, published in 1924, made him famous at just twenty years old.