My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I…

Pablo Neruda
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My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to the pain of those who suffer: they are my pains. For I cannot be without existing for all, for all who are silent and oppressed, I come from the people and I sing for them: my poetry is song and punnishment. ✨ Pablo Neruda (2015). The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, p.535, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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