Freedom is a demagogue.

Intuition is the positive energy that envy kills when it refuses to see the rainbow in the sky.

Always follow the line of thought of the intuition negating envy.

Metaphors and similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Without liberty there is no wealth.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. (p.8)

Creation means discovery of a new reality that exists but that has not yet been noticed. The word is alive again. The speaking word. The verbs are in revolt—a revolt of the masses against the representation that has always been the main weapon of the state. (p.121)

What is dignity? The measure of liberty.

If I respected languages like you do, I wouldn't write at all. El muro de Berlín fue derribado. Why can't I do the same? Desde la torre de Babel, las lenguas han sido siempre una forma de divorciarnos del resto de la humanidad. Poetry must find ways of breaking distance. I'm not reducing my audience. On the contrary, I'm going to have a bigger audience with the common markets — in Europe — in America. And besides, all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds. I feel like Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio, and I even feel like Garcilaso forging a new language. Saludo al nuevo siglo, el siglo del nuevo lenguaje de América, y le digo adiós a la retórica separatista y a los atavismos.

You cannot measure IQ through poetry.