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• asıl adı "neftali ricardo reyes basoalto", (12 temmuz 1904, parral - 23 eylül 1973, santiago, şili).
  20. yüzyıl şiirinin en önemli adlarından şili'li şair ve diplomat. 1953'te lenin barış ödülü'nü, 1971'de nobel edebiyat ödülü'nü kazanmıştır.
  
  i do not love you...
  
  i do not love you as if you were the saltrose, topaz or arrow of
  carnations that propagate fire;
  i love you as certain dark things are loved secretly, between the
  shadow and the soul.
  i love you as the plant that does not bloom and carries
  hidden within itself the light of those flowers;
  and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
  lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.
  i love you without knowing how, or
  when, or from where, i love you simply,
  without problems or pride:
  i love you in this way because i don't
  know any other way of loving but this,
  in which there is no i or you,
  so intimate that your hand upon my chest
  is my hand,
  so intimate that when i fall to asleep
  it is your eyes that close.