When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end.

Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.

Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.