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.
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.
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
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.
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.