“The secret of poetry is cruelty.”

“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.”

“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 ”

“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.”

“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”

“SITUATIONAL INTIMACY: Intimacy generated by a shared situation rather than a romantic or familial relationship, as when random train or airliner seatmates share their innermost secrets.”

“the rain falls, catching the trailing edges of net curtains which flow out of open windows like fishing nets lowered over the backs of boats, nets hung neatly between the outside and the in, keeping floundering secrets firmly hidden...”