Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

To be able to convert time, you must be conscious of time.

The relationship between a guy and a girl naturally becomes more intimate as they spend time together.

I'll admit it I'm on acid: uric acid! It makes my gout hurt like hell, but the foods I eat are so damn well

We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.

There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.

Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.