Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a yearning to escape the burdens of life and explore unknown paths free from suffering.
Pablo Neruda's quote reflects a deep desire to pursue a journey that transcends the constraints and anxieties inherent in life. It evokes the hope for freedom and liberation from the inevitability of anguish and mortality, suggesting that there exists a way of living that is unencumbered by the weight of sorrow and the reality of death, inviting contemplation on the nature of existence and the choices we make.
In practice
In a discussion about finding one's path in life, this quote could be shared to illustrate the beauty of seeking new experiences.
Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.β - Verb.
Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
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 learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.
When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can't eat that.
And if the City falls and one survives _x000D_ he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile _x000D_ he shall be the City
Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.
I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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