"remember the past (so as not to be) condemned to repeat it,"

""We cannot lay the blame on our authors for our incompetence and negligence. Imagine, taking the creators of our cult…"

"Literature is an affair of letters."

"There is no such thing as children’s literature."

"“Translation is not betrayal; it is a bridge that allows us to inhabit another’s world while keeping our own.”"

"“To write in Bikol is to insist that our language, our memory, and our identity matter.”"

"“The poet is both pilgrim and witness, carrying fragments of the sacred and the profane.”"

"“Poetry is a way of returning to the silence of the soul, but also a way of resisting oblivion.”"

"My first independent entry into the world of words, through reading, is associated inextricably with the cookies my m…"

"There can be no poetry without spirit."