“De pronto no puedo decirte
lo que yo te debo decir,
hombre,perdóname; sabrás
que aunque no escuches mis palabras
no me eché a llorar ni a dormir
y que contigo estoy sin verte
desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin.
I can't just suddenly tell you
what I should be telling you,
friend, forgive me; you know
that although you don't hear my words,
I wasn't asleep or in tears,
that I am with you without seeing you
for a good long time and until the end.”
―
lo que yo te debo decir,
hombre,perdóname; sabrás
que aunque no escuches mis palabras
no me eché a llorar ni a dormir
y que contigo estoy sin verte
desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin.
I can't just suddenly tell you
what I should be telling you,
friend, forgive me; you know
that although you don't hear my words,
I wasn't asleep or in tears,
that I am with you without seeing you
for a good long time and until the end.”
―
“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are dreamers and those who are being dreamed.”
― Dance of the Four Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel
― Dance of the Four Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel
“One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks.”
― Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
― Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
“I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.”
― The Last Night of the Earth Poems
― The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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