The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.