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.
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.
I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.
It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.
Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
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