Ode to the Book

Sometimes I forget what a great poet Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, better known as Pablo Neruda was.

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I'm on my way

with dust in my shoes

free of mythology:

send books back to their shelves,

I'm going down into the streets.

I learned about life

from life itself,

love I learned in a single kiss

and could teach no one anything

except that I have lived

with something in common among men,

when fighting with them,

when saying all their say in my song.