“That's called man skills, yo. (On a student's poem about a poem)”

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

“If we leave that general descriptive talk where everything which looks like a poem can be called a poem and turn instead to normative talk, we will of course not recognize as a poem everything that looks like a poem. A real poem has to be a successful poem, a successful speech act. In approximately the same way that only a mathematical proof which really proves something can be called a mathematical proof. It is not enough that it looks like a proof. The proof has to prove. For the poem it is not enough to look like a poem. It has to achieve something.”

“No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.”

“One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem about you online. It's called "El Puto”

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”