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.” - Verb.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire for authentic and raw emotional expression in poetry.
In this quote, Pablo Neruda articulates a longing for poetry that captures the intense and unrefined aspects of human experience. He desires words that convey deep feelings, evoke powerful imagery, and resonate with the primal emotions of existence. By comparing words to natural elements, he emphasizes the depth and richness of language that can express the complexities of life and emotion.
In practice
This quote could be used in a creative writing workshop to inspire poets to explore raw emotions in their work.
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?
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.
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.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality; to infuse life with color, motion and strange scents that intoxicate; to leap beyond imagination into that space between the worlds where fantasy becomes real; to be at once animal and god. Magic is...the ultimate adventure.
We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?
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