Eugenio Montejo Quotes

“The Earth Turned to Bring us Closerby: Eugenio MontejoThe earth turned to bring us closerit turned on itself and within usuntil it finally brought us together in this dreamas written in the Symposium.Nights passed by, snowfalls and solsticestime passed in minutes and millennia.An ox cart that was on its way to Nineveharrived in Nebraska.A rooster was singing some distance from the world,in one of the thousand pre-lives of our fathers.The earth was spinning with its musiccarrying us on board;it didn't stop turning a single momentas if so much love,so much that is beautifulwas only an adagio written long agoin the Symposium's score.”

“I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?”

“Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.”

“Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.”

“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”

“Good is equal to Order While,Evil is equal to FreedomDoes it make sense to you? It does for me.”

“E andando nel sole che abbagliasentire con triste meravigliacom'è tutta la vita e il suo travaglioin questo seguitare una muragliache ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia.”

“It takes a year to be collectively known as "intelligent" but it takes a lifetime to be distinguished as "wise”

“Good God! I'm out of tobacco.”

“And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —I am determined to prove a villain,And hate the idle pleasures of these days.”