Occupation: Senator Of Chile Birth: July 12, 1904 Death: September 23, 1973
When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?.
I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees..
What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?.
All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are..
I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love..
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout..
I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter..
I'm not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day..
Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?.
We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive:….
And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?.
I move in the university of the waves..
When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?.
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread..
The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again..
And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I ….