“My identifying features are rapture and despair.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
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“But human beings are, by nature, sad. So be it, then. It isn't all that bad.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“Not faith in the beyond, but only doubt can make you, sorry soul, a bit less wretched.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: Monologue of a Dog: New Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: Poems New and Collected
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“Why there's still all this space inside me I don't know.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“Only what is human can truly be foreign. The rest is mixed vegetation, subversive moles, and wind.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“Our times are still not safe and sane enough for faces to show ordinary sorrow.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“The commonplace miracle: that so many common miracles take place.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: Nothing Twice: Selected Poems / Nic dwa razy: Wybór wierszy
“Pero cómo contestar a preguntas nunca hechas, si, además, una es para vosotras tan nadie.”
Source: El gran número, Fin y principio y otros poemas
Source: El gran número, Fin y principio y otros poemas
“Eso de fotogénico tiene poco, y requiere años. Todas las cámaras se han ido ya a otra guerra.”
Source: El gran número, Fin y principio y otros poemas
Source: El gran número, Fin y principio y otros poemas
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems