"Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano."
— Pablo Neruda

January 1, 1970

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Nobel lecture, Hacia la ciudad espléndida (Towards the Splendid City) (13 December 1971). In the passage directly preceding these words, Neruda identified the source of his allusion:"It is today exactly one hundred years since an unhappy and brilliant poet, the most awesome of all despairing souls, wrote down this prophecy: 'À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.' 'In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.' I believe