The Original Is Unfaithful To The Translation.

His Life, Measured In Space And Time, Will Take Up A Mere Few Lines, Which My Ignorance Will Abbreviate Further.

We Have Shared Out, Like Thieves, The Amazing Treasures Of Days And Nights.

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.

Imprecision Is Tolerable And Verisimilar In Literature, Because We Always Tend Towards It In Life.

All Writing Is Dreaming