We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

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

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

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.

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...

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.