Gary Soto > Quotes

“It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.”
― Gary Soto

“Because nothing should be wasted
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough.”
― Gary Soto, The Elements of San Joaquin (Pitt Poetry

“going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere”
― Gary Soto, Buried Onions

“The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.”
― Gary Soto, Buried Onions

“I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.”
― Gary Soto, New and Selected Poems

“I drank that sentence and began to glow.”
― Gary Soto, Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing – Emotionally Resonant YA Verse About First Crushes and Heartbreak

“I'll be the invisible girl,
Everyone passing through me,

No one touching.”
― Gary Soto

“Dead, with my eyes wide open, I began a new life without a body. I had nothing to fear.   DOWNTOWN”
― Gary Soto, The Afterlife