Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.