But, poet, let
history rest in its shroud;
praise with your lyre
the grain in its granaries:
sing to the simple maize in the kitchen.
(Ode To Maize)
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and the fragrance of the earth livesin your crystalline nature.
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Thinking, tangling shadows in the deep solitude.
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I said it again: Come with me, as if I were dying,
and no one saw the moon that bled in my mouth
or the blood that rose into the silence.
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Latin America is very fond of the word hope. We like to be called the continent of hope. Candidates for deputy, senator, president, call themselves candidates of hope.
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My life before anyone, my harsh life.
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Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Pablo Neruda
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