Happy Birthday, Pablo

Today is Pablo Neruda's birthday.
"And it was at that age...Poetry arrived/in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where/it came from, from winter or a river./I don't know how or when,/no, they were not voices, they were not/words, nor silence,/but from a street I was summoned,/from the branches of night,/abruptly from the others,/among violent fires/or returning alone,/there I was without a face/and it touched me."