Besides, Rereading, Not Reading, Is What Counts.

I Have Committed The Worst Of Sins One Can Commit... I Have Not Been Happy.

We Did Meet Forty Years Ago. At That Time We Were Both Influenced By Whitman And I Said, Jokingly In Part, 'i Don't Think Anything Can Be Done In Spanish, Do You?' Neruda Agreed, But We Decided It Was Too Late For Us To Write Our Verse In English. We'd Have To Make The Best Of A Second-rate Literature.

We Forget That We Are All Dead Men Conversing With Dead Men.

Translations Are A Partial And Precious Documentation Of The Changes The Text Suffers.

The Execution Was Set For The 29th Of March, At Nine In The Morning. This Delay Was Due To A Desire On The Part Of The Authorities To Act Slowly And Impersonally, In The Manner Of Planets Or Vegetables.