Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of …

Pablo Neruda
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture. ✨ Pablo Neruda (1990). Selected Poems, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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