"Poems. Objects of death.
Immortality of eternal death.
Something like a night drip and fever.
Poetry. Urine. Blood.
Death flowing and fragrant.
Great hearing from God.
Poetry.
Silent cacophony of heart. "

Blanca Varela in "Silence of the poets"





"Poetry is the better answer, the only possible response of men to the essential ambiguity, unpardonable of human language."
"Poetry is a hedgehog that is thrown to the side of the road, motorway, which closes on itself and, while it expands, it is exposed to death and the fight against oblivion ..."

 
Jacques Derrida






"Poetry is perhaps the literary genre
which has hosted the most memorable sentences,
the choice to name the pain,
for he is the most common trigger. "

 
Marcel A. Testadiferro





"The writer is responsible only to his work. If it's good, it will be completely ruthless. He has a dream and that dream so much trouble to be rid of it, throws it all away: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, as long as writing ... "

 
                         William Faulkner, The Paris Review, 1956.