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The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words...more

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Mineral cactai,quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,the bird that punctures space,thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.The ...more

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life is other, always there,further off, beyond you andbeyond me, always on the horizon,life which unlives us and makes us strangers,that invents our ...more

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better the crime,the suicides of lovers, the incest committedby brother and sister like two mirrorsin love with their likeness, better to eatthe poiso...more

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because two bodies, naked and entwined,leap over time, they are invulnerable,nothing can touch them, they return to the source,there is no you, no I, ...more

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To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connota...more

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This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always ev...more