To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
But hurry, let’s entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.
I’ve often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.
The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.
Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.
Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.
The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.
The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink – and in drinking understand themselves.
Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.
Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean.
Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.
Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
We’re all curious about what might hurt us.
The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.