One of the greatest love poets of all time * Observer * His love poems have fuelled romances around the world * Independent * The poems today remain as urgently gorgeous as freshly picked flowers * Daily Telegraph * The greatest poet of the 20th century -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez He was that rare thing - a public poet, and a great one, held in deep affection by every layer of Chilean society. For the skill that earned him such esteem was his ability to find beauty in ordinary things * Guardian *