Victor Jara

I am moved more and more by what I see around me..

the poverty of my own country, of Latin America and

 other countries of the world;

I have seen with my own eyes memorials to the Jews in Warsaw,

the panic caused by the bomb,

 the disintegration that war causes to human beings and

all that is born of them...

But i have also seen what love can do,

what strength of a person who is happy can achieve.

Because of all this, and because above all I desire peace,

I need the wood and strings of my guitar to give vent

to sadness or happiness, some verse which opens up the heart

 like a wound, some line which helps us all to turn from inside ourselves

to look out and see the world with new eyes.

-Victor Jara

"I am moved more and more by what I see around me...the poverty of my own country, of Latin America and other countries of the world; I have seen with my own eyes memorials to the Jews in Warsaw, the panic caused by the bomb, the disintegration that war causes to human beings and all that is born of them...But i have also seen what love can do, what strength of a person who is happy can achieve. Because of all this, and because above all I desire peace, I need the wood and strings of my guitar to give vent to sadness or happiness, some verse which opens up the heart like a wound, some line which helps us all to turn from inside ourselves to look out and see the world with new eyes. "

-Victor Jara

Jara, J. An Unfinished Song

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