My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.

The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.

New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.