Joseph S. Cálix

“Some men are born posthumously.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“Al pueblo no se le da ningún chance de escoger ni a sus presidentes ni a sus representantes. Cierto es que él tampoco lo exige. El candidato sale de los conciliábulos plutocráticos de la Capital, y los diputados surgen después de las imposiciones del dinero.”
― Mario Sancho Jiménez

“. . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.

Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth.

Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

O waste of lost, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this weary, unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?

O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.”
― Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel

“Procuremos inventar pasiones nuevas o reproducir las viejas con pareja intensidad.”
― José Lezama Lima, La Habana