Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.
And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived_in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where_it came from, from winter or a river._I don't know how or when,_no they were not voices, they were not_words, nor silence,_but from a street I was summoned,_from the branches of night,_abruptly from the others,_among violent fires_or returning alone,_there I was without a face_and it touched me._
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
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And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived_in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where_it came from, from winter or a river._I don't know how or when,_no they were not voices, they were not_words, nor silence,_but from a street I was summoned,_from the branches of night,_abruptly from the others,_among violent fires_or returning alone,_there I was without a face_and it touched me._
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