Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Perfection is a polished collection of errors.
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.
My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.
I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.
An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.