m rquez quotation in the fragrance of guava a collection of conversations between gabriel garc a m rquez and plinio apuleyo mendoza first published in m rquez describes neruda as the greatest poet of the th century in any language that is the original source of that statement which has been quoted unsourced by the washington post by all things considered on npr and most recently in the new directions paperback edition of love poems but how exactly to cite that original source in a wikipedia article i will leave to established editors