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.
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that will paralyze their effort when in some strange coming of the light they are commanded to take a pathway entirely different to that which was theirs before; having no interests either temporal or eternal, either material or mental or spiritual, that will conflict with the will of God when that will is made known.
That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.
In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
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