Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet, diplomat, politician, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Best known and lauded for his love poems, Neruda also wrote a small and magnificent chapbook titled Las Pierdas del Cielo (The Stones of the Sky) while living with cancer. While the work is certainly able to be read literally, most interpretations tie Neruda's celebrations of gems less to the literal world and more to that of the cosmic and spiritual realm.
