The Chilean Nobel Prize in Literature winner Pablo Neruda, praised for his insightful humanistic poetry and literature, has been described as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He understood the critical importance of human interconnectedness. That is, both with people we know and love and those we will never meet.
He wrote beautifully about the meaning and purpose of art, in the broader context of being human, saying:
“There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song — but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.“
