"I am so grateful for poetry...Poetry sustains us."

"The art and the reality is very difficult sometimes to reconcile, but also I don’t think that the poet have to be in …"

"poetry to me is something sacred. If you want to be a poet, it’s very difficult. You have to listen to that voice, fo…"

"Before we are poets we are human beings, and we do have compromises as human beings. You get horrified at the injusti…"

"It’s wonderful to read what we have now, fantastic, but don’t forget the classics. They have all the riches in the wo…"

"In essence, all poets contribute to writing the great endless poem."

"Words are sensual. They seduce us and spark our imagination, but they also express intelligence and logic in construc…"

"The poet celebrates humankind, the universe, and the creator of the universe. It is impossible for one to remain indi…"

"Among my generation in Central America, women of the leisure class had the option of marrying or controlling their hu…"

"many more people know more about El Quijote than about the Popol Vuh. Why? Because the Spaniards destroyed so much."