Mario Benedetti

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.