Pablo Neruda Quotes

[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.

Karl Wiedergott - Ned Flanders, Professor Frink, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson

I always wonder why some poets become "international"? I guess they were tremendously good. I think of people like Pablo Neruda. He crossed all sorts of geographical lines. But he was also from that place, located in that place.

Seng in "Professor P.C. Mahalanobis and the Development of Population Statistics in India

Alok tried to ask the professor for a re-quiz, who stared back as if he had been asked for both his kidneys.

She is one of the greatest players who ever lived. . . Martina couldn't touch her. I think she'd beat the Williams sisters.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

I don't read poetry for pleasure. I read to be terrified in a way. And people who terrify me from their size and the grandeur of their imagination now are people like Pasternak and Neruda, a lot of Latin-American poets, Lowell - very few English poets - Ted Hughes a little...very few English poets now in fact (1968)