Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives Quotes

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.