"The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading."
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"Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth."
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"Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?"
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"La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.)"
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"When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say."
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"Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who now owns my indecisions, my hands, my private pain, my pride?"
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"Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens."
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"Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?"
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"When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?"
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"Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Why do I go rolling without wheels, flying without wings or feathers, and why did I decide to migrate if my bones live in Chile?"
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"I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives... I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them... I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, like pickings from a shipwreck, gifts from the waves... Everything exists in the word."
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"Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness."
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"I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics."
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"Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?)"
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"Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?"
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"Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?"
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"White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent."
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"While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone."
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"I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name."
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"O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature."
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