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

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

“Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”

“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 must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

“Since then, at an uncertain hour,”

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.”

“Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds”

“Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”

“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--”