Since having been in Chile I have been trying to embrace the local cuisine, culture, people, education system... etc, etc, etc. Well I have been fiercely sidestepping Chilean authors. I think this is very subliminal due to the fact that I am beginning to resent Chilean Spanish and my inability to understand it. Well, I am fighting my unconscious desire to read American authors (but I did check out Faulkner's As I Lye Dying yesterday from the American corner at the University library... I'm notta cold turkey kinda gal) and have started to dabble in the local written language. Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 70's, so he seemed like a good start.
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.”
-Pablo Neruda
“We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today”
-Gabriela Mistral
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”
- Pablo naruda
“Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars”
-Violeta parra
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