Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, diplomat and Nobel Prize winner for Literature, was born July 12, 1904.

Neruda is considered to be one of Latin America’s greatest poets. 

Pablo Neruda
Issued by Chile in 1992
Designer:Francisca Maldonado

I return to the streets of my childhood, to the winters of South America, to the lilac gardens of Araucania, to the first girl I held in my arms, to the mud on the streets which knew no paving, to the Indians mourning-clad left to us by the Conquest, to a country, a dark continent seeking for the light. And if the beams from this festive hall cross land and sea to light up my past, they also light up the future of our American peoples, who are defending their right to dignity, to freedom and to life.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1971/neruda/speech/

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