Second Spanish Republic

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."

"Poetry selections, translations by Eliot Weinberger"

"And to fill all these white pages that are left for me with the same monotonous question: at what hour do the hours end?"

"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."

"Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason."