@brainpicker:

"If we were not so single-minded
 about keeping our lives moving,
 and for once could do nothing,
 perhaps a huge silence
 might interrupt this sadness
 of never understanding ourselves"

On Neruda's birthday, his stunning ode to silence: https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/28/keeping-quiet-sylvia-boorstein-reads-pablo-neruda/

https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1414600942075396104

#poetry


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