Neruda's suit is his constant through the good times and the bad times because it is forever unchanging. I know that I can always find comfort in the constants and routines in my life and I like how this poem is able to put that feeling into words. My favorite quote reminds me to never take the things I love for granted, "I greet you/ with respect and then/ you embrace me and I forget you,/ because we are one being/ and shall be always/ in the wind, through the night,/ the streets and the struggle,/ one body,/ maybe, maybe, one day, still" (Neruda 61-69). This quote describes the feeling that you will never miss something until you know what it feels like when that something is gone. Even if my constant is something as simple as an old suit,
