Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.