Mario Benedetti
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.
My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.
I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
Perfection is a polished collection of errors.Collection: Errors
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.Collection: Dream
We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.Collection: Miracle
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.Collection: Generosity
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.Collection: Life
An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.Collection: Writing
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.Collection: Writing
Era lindo escucharla, pero era mejor sentirla tan cerca.Collection: Romance