i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.