In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

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