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

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.