Sublime

The poet is the person who uses words not primarily to convey information but to make a relationship, shape beauty, form truth.

Strawberries first shaped my view of a world full of gifts simply scattered at your feet.

Neither entirely literal nor entirely metaphoric, the world that articulated itself through our oral stories was rather, at every point, metamorphic. The land was alive: each place had its pulse, each palpable presence seemed crouched in readiness to become something else.

In the Roman system of art and science, there existed a concept for which we have only a partial analog. Successful businessmen, politicians, or rich playboys would subsidize a number of writers, thinkers, artists, and performers. More than just being paid to produce works of art, these artists performed a number of tasks in exchange for

His poems had thus entered the world of men instead of him, ahead of him, as if they were his emissaries, his advance party!

«Las flores de mi jardín han de ser mis enfermeras» VIOLETA PARRA

She reads Thoreau over wood fires at night.