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.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the struggle of finding beauty and growth in a bleak environment filled with sorrow.
In this poignant expression by Pablo Neruda, the speaker conveys a sense of loneliness and despair, likening their emotional pain to a seed planted in the earth that nourishes only sorrow. The metaphor of 'budding among the ruins' suggests a yearning for hope, resilience, and the possibility of growth in a desolate landscape, emphasizing the complexities of life where hardship can also lead to personal transformation.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
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.
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.
I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.
Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question...yes.
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne β bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.
If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.
There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
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