Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.

Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes of Pablo Neruda (ed. Wings Press, 2013) - ISBN: 9781609401955