# Mario Benedetti's most famous poems

The Uruguayan poet's most shared, sung and dedicated poems, from "Te quiero" to "No te salves".

- 179 votes · 13 items
- May 18, 2021 · Milagros Pereyra Ortiz
- https://even.best/en/l/3183/mario-benedetti-s-most-famous-poems

## Top 13

1. **I Love You** (13 · ▲16 ▼3) — His best known; Alberto Favero turned it into a song.
2. **Don't Save Yourself** (13 · ▲14 ▼1) — A call not to stand still watching life go by.
3. **Let's Make a Deal** (13 · ▲14 ▼1) — A pact of complicity between two people.
4. **The South Also Exists** (13 · ▲14 ▼1) — The poem Serrat turned into an anthem.
5. **Curriculum** (11 · ▲14 ▼3) — Life summed up in a few lines.
6. **The Formal Ones and the Cold** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — A date that begins shyly.
7. **Tactics and Strategy** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Loving with patience and no tricks.
8. **Why We Sing** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Singing in spite of everything, in times of dictatorship.
9. **Armoured Heart** (8 · ▲11 ▼3) — Between tenderness and the need to protect oneself.
10. **In Defence of Joy** (8 · ▲10 ▼2) — Claiming joy in hard times; Serrat sang it.
11. **Bye Number Three** (7 · ▲10 ▼3) — A farewell with numbers instead of names.
12. **Solitudes** (2 · ▲8 ▼6) — Everyone's own solitudes.
13. **Vice Versa** (2 · ▲7 ▼5) — Being afraid to see you and needing you.

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