While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone. ✨ Pa…

Pablo Neruda
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While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone. ✨ Pablo Neruda (2015). I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems, p.167, Macmillan
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While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone. ✨ Pablo Neruda (2015). I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems, p.167, Macmillan

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