From the moment I wrote ‘Leaf Storm’ I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.
One had to live a long time to know a man’s true nature.
Necessity has the face of a dog.
We’ll grow old waiting.
Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
Inspiration gives no warnings.
And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.
Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.
Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o’clock and the Conservatives at eight.
A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.