Quote by Pablo Neruda: “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

The experience of loving someone passes quickly, but the work of getting over that person — or that loss — stretches out far longer. Time does not heal grief proportionally; absence can outlast memory in its power to hurt.

Neruda published Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair in 1924 at the age of nineteen, while studying in Santiago. The collection became one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the Spanish language and established him as a major literary voice across Latin America.

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.