The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
Cada vez que te enamores no expliques a nadie nada, deja que el amor te invada sin entrar en pormenores.
No hay que prometer nada porque las promesas son horribles ataduras, y cuando uno se siente amarrado tiende a liberarse, eso es fatal.
Tal vez se equivocara acerca del amor. Pero nuestro tuvo alguna vez un sentido.
Usted tiene todas las condiciones para concurrir a mi felicidad, pero yo tengo muy pocas para concurrir la suya.
No comprendo y basta. No quiero pensar en todo esto.
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
Perfection is a polished collection of errors.
We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
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.
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.
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.