Gerardo Ramirez

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

“The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.”
― Fidel Castro

“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”
― Mark Slouka, God's Fool