Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a p... - Pablo Neruda

"But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me."

"Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air."

"Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos"

"Y por que el sol es tan mal amigodel caminante en el desierto?Y por que el sol es tan simpaticoen el jardin del hospital?And why is the sun such a bad companionto the traveler in the desert?And why is the sun so congenial in the hospital garden?"

"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."