They knocked on my door on the sixth of August:
nobody was standing there
and nobody entered, sat down in a chair
and passed the time with me, nobody.

I will never forget that absence
that entered me like a man enters his own house
and I was satisfied with non-being:
an emptiness open to everything.

Nobody questioned me, saying nothing,
and I answered without seeing or speaking.

Such a spacious and specific interview!

	- Pablo Neruda