15 quotes
Death, one experiences alone
Love is a two-person thing
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Is the truth of tablecloths to be spread? How awful always to take refuge in known words
A person should let himself go.
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Creativity is a hidden gem. Education is needed to uncover it.
The Poet's Poetic Responsibility (2012)
The poet should be responsible to the poem.
The Poet's Poetic Responsibility (2012)
A person can gaze at the sky for hours
Can gaze for hours at a bird, a child, the sea
To live on the earth is to become part of it
To strike down roots that won't pull free
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Distant lands should draw you, people you don't know
To read every book, know other's lives, you should be burning
You shouldn't exchange for anything the pleasure of a glass of water
No matter how much the joy, your life should be filled with yearning
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Writing poems is perhaps the loveliest deception
Later they'll make a picture or something, then go and drink wine
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
I've learned some things from having lived:
If you're alive, experience one thing with all your power
Your beloved should be worn out from being kissed
And you should drop exhausted from the smelling of a flower
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
I do not remember any other term when the force that had captured the political power in this country had become so vulgar as it is today, so corrupt, and so hypocritical; when the legal system had been so downtrodden, deteriorated, collapsed and turned into a means of cruelty.
To your utmost, listen to every beautiful song
As though filling all the self with sound and melody
One should plunge head-first into life
As one dives from a cliff into the emerald sea
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
I've learned some things from having lived:
If you're alive, experience largely, merge with rivers, heavens, cosmos
For what we call living is a gift given to life
And life is a gift bestowed upon us
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
They were eyes, that while gazing on the world
Rendered it brilliant with meaning They were eyes, that embraced me with glances
They were eyes, for which I now hopelessly long
Once more in that hour of darkness
In dark black waters they arise
Dark songs pass before their eyes
They lie awake gazing into darkness
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
In the most affirming places of their love
Suddenly they grew tired, out of breath
Little by little they felt the death
Of some places left in darkness
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
A poem is a living organism.
The Poet's Poetic Responsibility (2012)