<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476076" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to Salt</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This salt<br>in the salt cellar<br>I once saw in the salt mines.<br>I know<br>you won't<br>believe me<br>but<br>it sings<br>salt sings, the skin<br>of the salt mines<br>sings<br>with a mouth smothered<br>by the earth.<br>I shivered in those<br>solitudes<br>when I heard<br>the voice<br>of<br>the salt <br>in the desert.<br>Near Antofagasta<br>the nitrous<br>pampa<br>resounds:<br>a<br>broken<br>v oice,<br>a mournful<br>song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In its caves<br>the salt moans, mountain<br>of buried light,<br>translucent cathedral,<br>crystal of the sea, oblivion<br>of the waves.<br>And then on every table<br>in the world,<br>salt,<br>we see your piquant<br>powder<br>sprinkling<br>vital light<br>upon<br>our food. <br>Preserver<br>of the ancient<br>holds of ships,<br>discoverer<br>on<br>the high seas,<br>earliest<br>sailor<br>of the unknown, shifting<br>byways of the foam.<br>Dust of the sea, in you<br>the tongue receives a kiss<br>from ocean night:<br>taste imparts to every seasoned<br>dish your ocean essence;<br>the smallest,<br>miniature<br>wave from the saltcellar<br>reveals to us<br>more than domestic whiteness;<br>in it, we taste finitude.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Pablo+Neruda">Pablo Neruda</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476076" data-title="Ode to Salt de Pablo Neruda" data-description="This salt in the salt cellar I once saw in the salt mines. I know you won't believe me but it sings salt sings, the skin of the salt mines sings with a mouth smothered by the earth. I shivered in those solitudes when I heard the voice of the salt ..."></div> </div> </div>

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