Giannina Braschi

"Metaphors are the beginning of the democratic system of envy. They look for what is dissimilar and try to make it similar. Everything that is similar cuts the edge of what is unique."

"Questions dont change the truth, but they give it motion."

"I have just turned life into a proverb. I just killed it."

"What does winter or autumn or spring or summer know of memory. They know nothing of memory. They know that seasons pass and return. They know that they are seasons. That they are time. And they know how to affirm themselves. And they know how to impose themselves. And they know how to maintain themselves, What does autumn know of summer. What sorrows do seasons have. None hate. None love. They just pass."

"Nostalgia is a fruit with the pain of distance in its pit."

"Not every pigeon is a rat with wings. Not every rat with wings is a dove of peace."

"Always follow the line of thought of the intuition negating envy."

"What is dignity? The measure of liberty."

"You cannot measure IQ through poetry."

"—Poets and anarchists are always the first to go. —Where. —To the frontline. Wherever it is."

"Metaphors and similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy."

"Behind the word is silence, behind that silence is forgetfulness."