Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.