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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a recognition of the cycle of life and death, suggesting that through death, new life is inspired.
Pablo Neruda's quote reflects on the profound connection between life and death. It suggests that the silence and stillness associated with death, represented by 'cold rain and bells,' provides a necessary contrast to life, enabling the will to grow and thrive. This interplay between death and rebirth highlights nature's cyclical essence, emphasizing how endings can lead to new beginnings, much like how a seed must die to give way for a plant to sprout.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech at a memorial service to celebrate the cycle of life.
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.
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The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour
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We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
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