Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish…

Pablo Neruda
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Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.
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Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away? ✨ Pablo Neruda (2015). The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, p.12, … ▶
Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations. ✨ Pablo Neruda (2015). I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems, p.221, Macmillan
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Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

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