If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living.
Pablo NerudaWhen I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.
Pablo NerudaA book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
Pablo NerudaMy duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to the pain of those who suffer: they are my pains. For I cannot be without existing for all, for all who are silent and oppressed, I come from the people and I sing for them: my poetry is song and punnishment.
Pablo Neruda