Pablo Neruda Quotes

I've got a career. Don't you guys know that? A career! No mafia don invites me to a party. They keep on calling on Dawood twice a year. They keep on consulting him. They set the correspondence courses right. And me? No one just gives a damn for me. Hey! Won't I ever be able to become someone like Dawood Ibrahim?

Everyone has a ‘reservoir of talent'. Intuition, interests and skills form the foundation of talents. These talents are indicators of your calling. The best way to ensure long-term job satisfaction is to act on that calling.

I always wonder why some poets become "international"? I guess they were tremendously good. I think of people like Pablo Neruda. He crossed all sorts of geographical lines. But he was also from that place, located in that place.

Stand here with me...with the stars and hills as witness and in their presence consecrate your life and talent, your song and your speech, your thought and your dream, to the motherland. O poet see visions from hill –tops and spread abroad the message of hope to the toilers of the valleys.

The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

Murthy, [says the Time magazine], has not sold his soul for money and success. One of country’s most admired men, he is vigilant about his employees’well-being, granting stock options, building exercise facilities and spreading values as much as wealth.

[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/li_ching_chao/poems Li Ching Chao Poems and Poetry] at Famous Poets and Poems

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

[http://www.biography.com/search/article.jsp?aid=9421737&page=2&search= A&E life story of Neruda]

The thing you are accustomed to calling your body, he suggests, is only a cooler and denser declension of your true body.

Spreading the Buddha's teaching is a noble undertaking that illuminates both the person and the law.

The fact that Saigyō composed the poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. He also wrote:
In the mountain village
who are you calling, yobuko-bird?
I thought you lived alone.

[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cecilia-vicuna Poetry Foundation page]

[http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/16/1442233 Celebrating Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda] – Democracy Now! interviews Martin Espada, poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The Prophet Muhammad is said to have called Imru’ al-Qays "the leader of the poets into hellfire.