Poetry Quote by Julio Cortázar — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”

“Thirsty for being, the poet ceaselessly reaches out to reality, seeking with the indefatigable harpoon of the poem a reality that is always better hidden, more re(g)al. The poem’s power is as an instrument of possession but at the same time, ineffably, it expresses the desire for possession, like a net that fishes by itself, a hook that is also the desire of the fish. To be a poet is to desire and, at the same time, to obtain, in the exact shape of the desire.”

“Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.”

“I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.”

“Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett”

“[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”

“you’re already naked in this world”

“When I feel my poetry touches someone's heart or mind, I'm fulfilled.”

“Dancing is like poetry written by our bodies: our outstretched arms our words of longing.”

“...the collective wisdom of humanity [is] enshrined in its poetry.”