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I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.

Pablo Neruda
Sleep, Dark, Thinking
Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh (2004). “Residence on Earth”, p.119, New Directions Publishing
I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.