"Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines" by Pablo Neruda (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

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  • Опубліковано 1 сер 2011
  • There's a video with Robert Carlyle as Rumpelstiltskin using this reading here: • Tonight I Can Write th... and a Giles & Buffy video using this reading on Vimeo:
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    Many people find this poem expresses their own feelings very well.
    From Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, published by Jonathan Cape
    The final painting was by Van Gogh.
    Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
    Write, for example, 'The night is starry
    and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'
    The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
    Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
    Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
    I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
    She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
    How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
    Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
    To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
    To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
    And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.
    What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
    The night is starry and she is not with me.
    This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
    My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
    My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
    My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
    The same night whitening the same trees.
    We, of that time, are no longer the same.
    I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
    My voice tries to find the wind to touch her hearing.
    Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
    Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
    I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
    Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
    Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
    my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
    Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
    and these the last verses that I write for her.
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  • @Lisa0529
    @Lisa0529 8 років тому +189

    No words are truer -- "Love is so short, forgetting is so long................"

    • @ledzeppelin8377
      @ledzeppelin8377 8 років тому +19

      "es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido....." in spanish

  • @emmasachs8307
    @emmasachs8307 11 років тому +48

    Every time I hear this poem I want to cry. Sometimes I do. This poem is pure perfection.

  • @omarhb
    @omarhb 11 років тому +124

    by the way, Neruda was only 19 when he wrote these poems.

  • @velessnake4501
    @velessnake4501 8 років тому +63

    All those who loved but love no longer (or maybe they do) can agree that these truly are the saddest lines.

  • @MitchellG-Camerican
    @MitchellG-Camerican 11 років тому +6

    "Love is so short, forgetting is so long." embodies everything that can ever be said about love.

  • @SuccessResourcesAustralia
    @SuccessResourcesAustralia 9 років тому +59

    "The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty." - Pablo Neruda

  • @carterssant
    @carterssant 10 років тому +30

    The poem reached my heart like no other poem has

  • @gatogreensleeves
    @gatogreensleeves 9 років тому +11

    My favorite Neruda poem AND my favorite translation of it!! Great reading too.

  • @NBartrina
    @NBartrina 9 років тому +12

    It sounds the same than in Spanish. I read it when I was twenty and still shines like no other poem I've ever read. Love and loss touches you in a different way when you are twenty , I belive...

  • @1719456
    @1719456 11 років тому +1

    ''Love is so short,forgetting is so long''. Truer words never spoken & never spoken more beautifully.Spoken Verse,you are the voice that gives texture to the words.

  • @guygutierrez263
    @guygutierrez263 8 років тому +10

    Wow, such great words. Love this poet. His words but my feelings inside.

  • @SpokenVerse
    @SpokenVerse  12 років тому +15

    Van Gogh - it says in the notes. I think it's called La nuit étoilée [Starry Night]. It's in the Musée d'Orsay. He painted several pictures showing a starry sky.

  • @Shadowknightneo
    @Shadowknightneo 13 років тому +1

    After just loosing my girlfriend, I came here for this very poem. Words insipre us all but now i truely understand that poetry touches the very fabric of being human. This has touched me in a personal way. For "Tonight I can Write the saddest lines".

  • @phatcracker2007
    @phatcracker2007 4 роки тому +1

    It's as though Pablo speaks for all of us, at one time in our lives.

  • @Macvoon
    @Macvoon 12 років тому +1

    What a wonderful piece. I have just discovered Neruda and I am already enchanted by his words and how he conveys emotions.

  • @4vinos
    @4vinos 6 років тому +3

    What a nice way of portraying a lost love.

  • @christinaescajeda1901
    @christinaescajeda1901 4 роки тому +1

    Read between the lines
    I loved you sometimes he loved me too
    Never knew his name
    No voice
    Always a mystery
    Glad he's left my aching heart

  • @shaiju.rshaiju.r7938
    @shaiju.rshaiju.r7938 5 років тому

    awesome lines... people who loved someone very truly and losed his love, they can understand this poem..each and every word

  • @ShubhamMirg
    @ShubhamMirg 10 років тому +34

    love is so short , forgetting is so long:)

    • @AsWeSpeak154
      @AsWeSpeak154 10 років тому +4

      Words so powerful and so true.

  • @im9438
    @im9438 9 років тому +6

    Great simple poem.
    Love listening the voice deep-soft reader.

  • @julkarnayeenmahfuz2957
    @julkarnayeenmahfuz2957 4 роки тому

    'Love is so short,
    Forgetting is so long."
    How true is that!

  • @ibanez452
    @ibanez452 12 років тому +4

    why must you make me cry...last time i cried this way was at my parents grave...

  • @nisnabudas5497
    @nisnabudas5497 9 років тому +7

    great poem and great voice..neruda is simply great..love from Nepal

  • @phillipgonzalez9574
    @phillipgonzalez9574 12 років тому +1

    this was an amazing poem.. love how it makes one feel about how important she is to him

  • @TomRAFC
    @TomRAFC 13 років тому +1

    i am suprised thispoem has passed me by. beautiful and simple and as always read wonderfully.

  • @sharihephzibah3814
    @sharihephzibah3814 5 років тому +2

    "I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
    Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

  • @peekeyeseek
    @peekeyeseek 4 роки тому

    I have never realised how short in time poetry was and is.
    Yet listening and reading is like a small eternity.
    I'm not trying to be poetic btw
    I actually did just realise that.
    It wasn't until I clocked the time that it dawned on me.
    Time is so elastic.

  • @Deb1650
    @Deb1650 4 роки тому

    One of my all-time favorite poems.

  • @midnightpoem3414
    @midnightpoem3414 10 років тому +6

    Truly beautiful...ive heard it in spanish before but this is the first time in english
    Beautiful! :)

  • @pynhunsusngi6079
    @pynhunsusngi6079 4 роки тому

    "Love is so short, forgetting is so long"
    ❤️❤️❤️

  • @PabloCesarC
    @PabloCesarC 11 років тому +3

    Great voice for a great poem, thanks from Chile.

  • @MegaSWEETREAT
    @MegaSWEETREAT 10 років тому +2

    Beautiful.

  • @NorthCountryPoet
    @NorthCountryPoet 11 років тому +5

    Poetry transcends language.

  • @atarahmary6222
    @atarahmary6222 4 роки тому +1

    This hits different after a breakup

  • @satyajitmallickk
    @satyajitmallickk 3 роки тому +1

    What a great poem it is. Nice recitation.

  • @phroney
    @phroney 13 років тому

    Thank you so much for your readings. Your voice is perfect.

  • @pr0nkj3wail
    @pr0nkj3wail 4 роки тому

    Great reading. Thank you, Tom

  • @pifflundberg
    @pifflundberg 11 років тому +2

    Love is so short and forgetting so Long... Oh-my!... I Will drown myself in poems!

  • @ToniTerrific
    @ToniTerrific 11 років тому

    This is My absolute favorite . Oh SpokenVerse I cried and cried all the way through it> Goose Pimples still and my hair tingles. Awesome, beautiful You are Pablo born again!

  • @kevin60ification
    @kevin60ification 13 років тому

    another sumptuous reading of a magnificent translation of a superb poem...

  • @laughlight1
    @laughlight1 11 років тому +3

    My Friend, Love lasts beCAUSE the poets write ~ because they feel & recall so intensely all the feelings each of us will ever know...
    to healing
    then, to remembering
    until you can read a poem and not weep with the grief of such feeling
    ellen

  • @charlibukolski6954
    @charlibukolski6954 4 роки тому

    love this!

  • @chamannigam
    @chamannigam 11 років тому +1

    my god -----its so beautiful and intense

  • @sarabower1
    @sarabower1 12 років тому

    my favourite poem of all time

  • @LeoCagape
    @LeoCagape 13 років тому

    This is so beautiful.

  • @matrags
    @matrags 12 років тому

    Painfully beautiful words.

  • @zennagoth4321
    @zennagoth4321 5 років тому

    love it!

  • @tinkerbell5644
    @tinkerbell5644 4 роки тому

    What a groovy voice. Keep it up !

  • @priyankar8455
    @priyankar8455 4 роки тому

    Great poem, great reading

  • @JohnnyChingon85
    @JohnnyChingon85 5 років тому

    Beautiful

  • @purpleandgoldpoetry
    @purpleandgoldpoetry 7 років тому +1

    Inspiring.

  • @AndrewMottershead
    @AndrewMottershead 12 років тому

    The thing is. I do still love her.
    We sat on the beach in Isla Negra Chile, just below La Casa de Pablo Neruda.
    We held each other so close.
    Now she exists no more.
    Love lasts no matter how the poet writes.

  • @colladovii8628
    @colladovii8628 12 років тому

    Bravo, you have a great voice for Poetry, GRACIAS.

  • @afcarmona01
    @afcarmona01 13 років тому

    Well read, well read - it's been ages...

  • @squirrly001
    @squirrly001 13 років тому

    Yes, love can be so sadly futile. Well read.

  • @ldcardenas
    @ldcardenas 10 років тому

    y el verso cae al alma como al pasto el rocío...

  • @ebryant6280
    @ebryant6280 5 років тому

    Favorite

  • @agrlfmtx
    @agrlfmtx 13 років тому

    I BET the last line that was written was NOT the last verse he wrote!! :)
    Very moving!
    T:)

  • @derrickporter7735
    @derrickporter7735 6 років тому +1

    What a nightmare love can be...yet, remembered O, so differently....

  • @panchulo12
    @panchulo12 5 років тому

    Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
    and these the last verses that I write for her.

  • @angebesideyou
    @angebesideyou 12 років тому

    @Shadowknightneo : If she is still alive in this world, you still have the chance to " dont write the saddest lines", but "tonight, you write the most beautiful and sincere about your love to her", the magic power can guide her to you. To think is good, but action is better". Good brave to you, my dear!

  • @AndrewMottershead
    @AndrewMottershead 12 років тому +1

    If you are reading and listening to this then she has lost a good soul...

  • @CurzonRoad
    @CurzonRoad 12 років тому

    ... forgetting is so long!

  • @CaroleMcDonnell
    @CaroleMcDonnell 13 років тому +1

    I really should read more Pablo Neruda. I don't really know his work that well. Thanks.

  • @abuibrahimalhindi
    @abuibrahimalhindi 11 років тому

    WOW!!!!!!! That was beautiful, Pablo is my new hero. Thanks for the upload.
    By the way, who is the reader???? I love his reading style.

  • @bangbangdivine
    @bangbangdivine 12 років тому

    Wonderful reading as ever. Please tell me what is the painting at the end.

  • @yatichandu
    @yatichandu 12 років тому

    " Tonight Neruda made me remember her.... Tonight i can write the saddest Lines!!!!!!!!

  • @ananthuscreations6021
    @ananthuscreations6021 5 років тому

    I learnt when i was doing graduation

  • @Studentofgosset
    @Studentofgosset 11 років тому

    Is there a translation that retains the cadence?

  • @angebesideyou
    @angebesideyou 12 років тому

    Last verses but not least.

  • @yokyu2lea
    @yokyu2lea 13 років тому +1

    I have always thought of this part:
    "I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
    Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
    That uncertainty is so epic!
    What could have she answered to this if after all "love is so short" ?

  • @ivanmerma8731
    @ivanmerma8731 11 років тому

    respetos,

  • @anwarhawk839
    @anwarhawk839 3 роки тому

    Two Poems
    Kalimullah
    Struggling
    Struggling with maximum effort to enter into the mainstream
    A good job
    A good family life
    But slipped away
    Struggling again
    Time passed by
    Gray hair covered the head
    Struggling to enter into the mainstream
    Slipped again.
    Feel in the midst of darkness
    Probably it will never end
    There may be no light at the end of the tunnel.
    Or I will not reach the end of the tunnel.
    This is my script
    Allah wrote it many years ago before the earth was created
    What did I do
    Because of it I am in the midst of darkness .
    What should I did differently
    I could avoid this darkness.
    What should I do now
    I would not be on it.
    I am not worrying about it
    It is a script
    Allah wrote it many years ago
    See the light or not see the light
    It doesn't matter anymore
    I feel the promise land
    Which Allah promised to the people
    I am among the beautiful companions
    But no one to represent from the earth.
    It doesn't matter anymore
    I am among those who would be successful
    It doesn't matter anymore
    Would I see or not see the light?
    I am submissive.
    Oh! Allah make me among those who showed beautiful patience
    After torment inflicted on them.
    Oh! Allah guide me that I could show the beautiful patience
    After torment inflict on me as a test.
    And I bow down with those
    Who bow down to declare your greatness
    Oh! Allah guide me that I could have a beautiful death.
    Last words before to take the last breath
    " There is no God but Allah ".
    After a beautiful sleep
    I will wake up to walk to meet with Allah.
    I will cross the bridge with the speed of light.
    I am in the heaven
    A KALIMULLA
    Allah will talk with me.
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