Quote(s) of the week: Pablo Neruda

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Written by Catherin J Pascal Dunk

The following lines (I couldn’t pick just one) are from ‘Ode to the Dictionary’ by Pablo Neruda, as translated by Wally Swist

Dictionary,
old and heavy, with his coat
of worn skin

…

[you are] a language barn.

From your thick
and sonorous jungle depths,
give me,
when I need it,
a single trill

…

I am of the earth and with words I sing.

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