Santiago, Chile

Santiago, Chile

“Graffiti depicting the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda in the Bellavista neighborhood, where he once lived. The area is a colorful bohemian warren of galleries, shops and bars where students, fashionistas and media types mix.”

via nytimes

We will never remember dying. We were so patient about being, noting down the numbers, the days, the years and the months, the hair, the mouths we kissed, and that moment of dying: we surrender it without a note, we give it to others as remembrance or we give it simply to water, to water, to air, to time. Nor do we keep the memory of our birth, though being born was important and fresh: and now you don’t even remember one detail, and you haven’t kept even a branch of the first light.” — from Birth by Pablo Neruda