Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio Paz.
“Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.”
“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always the...”
“Mineral cactai,quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,the bird that punctures space,thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.The pines taught me to talk to myself.In that garde...”
“because two bodies, naked and entwined,leap over time, they are invulnerable,nothing can touch them, they return to the source,there is no you, no I, no tomorrow,no yesterday, no names, the truth o...”
“When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings”
“life is other, always there,further off, beyond you andbeyond me, always on the horizon,life which unlives us and makes us strangers,that invents our face and wears it away”
“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”
“When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people.”
“Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today.”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”
“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”
“great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this aft...”
“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”
“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on ...”