this day in literary history

[Daybelys]

July 12, 1904

The great chilean poet Pablo Neruda is born. Neruda's verse helped shape 20th-century Latin American literary and political consciousness. Neruda was often referred to as "the poet of enslaved humanity". He was awarded the Lenin peace prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971.

July 12, 1817

David Henry Thoreau is born. American writer, philosopher, and naturalist who believed in the importance of individualism. Thoreau's best-known work is Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), which embodies his philosophy and reflects his independent character. The book records Thoreau's experiences in a hand-built cabin, where he spent two years in partial seclusion, at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.

[Daybelys]

that you still remember yo no me acuerdo de el dia que conoci a mi juanito pero si me acuerdo de el dia en que me enamore de el