I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Source: On view of his childhood; in Wall Street Journal, 14 Nov 1985.
-- Pablo Neruda, (Jul 12 1904-1973), Chilean poet, diplomat, Marxist; He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and the Lenin Prize for Peace in 1953; wrote Residence on Earth-Nobel, 1971.