We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.


Selected Poems (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990) - ISBN: 9780395544181

Pablo Neruda Quotes

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first,...

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first,...

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first,...

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first,...