“If there is a worm in the heart, & chamber it has bitten out,I will protect that emptiness until it is large enough.In it will be a light the color of steel & landscape, into which the traveler might set out.”
“The secret of poetry is cruelty.”
“Force the bit between the mouth of freedom didn't we learn to flyRemember to sail the skiesDistant sunsWill we reachWinds allowOther skylinesOther skylines to hold you ”
“you will die with your fist clenched and jaws tense, in perfect demonstration of hate and combat, beacuse you are not a symbol, you are an authentic member of a society which is crumbling: the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and moves in your actions; you are as useful as I am, but you don't know how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you”
“There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own life hath been one long forgetting, the erasure of what was drawn, a terrible redaction; til all that remains is blank white and comfortless.I know not what we have been; I know not what we are; but I know what we might be.And so I light out for the unknown regions.”
“Charles Darwin, who had witnessed theatrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s nativeIndians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predictedthat “the country will be in the hands of whiteGaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians.The former being a little superior in education,as they are inferior in every moral virtue.”
“I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.”