“I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!”

“I will never understand the whole worldor evenone country.All I can dois try to understandthe truth and liesin the simplest choicesI faceevery day.”

“If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares.”

“I feel the heaviness of nightmareseven though I am awake.How weary I am, how sleeplessand hopeless—there is no escapefrom the tormentof wishes.”

“I have spent all my years accepting sad truths.—Quebrado”

“I still think of myselfas a broken place, a drifting islewith no home.—Quebrado”

“No matter how invisibleI feel, I will always be wrappedin the memoryof life as a captive.—Quebrado”