When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
Mario BenedettiRead
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.
Interpretation
Death signifies the existence of life, highlighting the value of our experiences.
Mario Benedetti's quote suggests that the concept of death serves as a poignant reminder of the value of life itself. It emphasizes that the end of life is not just a conclusion but a reflection of the richness of our experiences and the significance of moments we encounter during our lifetime. By viewing death as a symbol, we are encouraged to appreciate the beauty of life and the memories we create.
In practice
During a memorial service to honor a loved one.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.
We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better is incoherent. Moreover, it would seem that until we had created our new morality, we would have no standard by which to criticize God. Since we have not yet created one, the standard by which we judge Him must be the very standard that He gave us. If it is good enough to judge Him by, then why do we need a new one?
You cannot step into the same river twice.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story. It is one repeated over and over again in history. When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe.
Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.
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