Furies and Sorrows by Pablo Neruda — Read

. In my heart there are furies and sorrows. / QUEVEDO

This poem was written in 1934. How many things have come to pass since then! Spain, where I wrote it, is a girdle of ruins. Ah, if with only a drop of poetry or love we could placate the anger of the world, but that can be done only by striving and by a resolute heart.