Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda's love poetry is tender, melancholy, passionate and breathtaking. Pablo Neruda wrote a lot of beautiful poems, but I have chosen the most famous and the most beautiful of them. Some of them you can dedicate to your special someone.