Mentyrosa

“Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors. ”
― Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth

“a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.”
― Pope Benedict XVI

“68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share. ”
― Roberto Bolaño