I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched…

Pablo Neruda
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I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day. ✨ Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh (2004). Residence on Earth, p.119, New Directions Publishing
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I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day. ✨ Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh (2004). Residence on Earth, p.119, New Directions Publishing

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