Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

- Giannina Braschi

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

- Giannina Braschi

Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

- Giannina Braschi

Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

- Giannina Braschi

Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bri…

- Giannina Braschi

Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

- Giannina Braschi

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

- Giannina Braschi

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

- Giannina Braschi

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

- Giannina Braschi