The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood? Will our life not be a tunnel between tow vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles? A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices. Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing. I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. | 
