There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

He'd known her for five months, but felt like a lifetime for how attracted he was to her.

When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

What joy is better than the news of friends?

And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.