Pablo Neruda Quote

Today let me forget this happiness, wider than all the sea,
because man is wider than all the sea and her necklace of islands
and we must fall into him as down a well to clamber back with
branches of secret water, recondite truths.


'The Heights of Macchu Picchu' (1945) canto 11, translated by Nathaniel Tarn


Today let me forget this happiness, wider than all the sea, because man is wider than all the sea and her necklace of islands and we must fall into...

Today let me forget this happiness, wider than all the sea, because man is wider than all the sea and her necklace of islands and we must fall into...

Today let me forget this happiness, wider than all the sea, because man is wider than all the sea and her necklace of islands and we must fall into...

Today let me forget this happiness, wider than all the sea, because man is wider than all the sea and her necklace of islands and we must fall into...