I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers. - Mario Benedetti
My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.
- Mario Benedetti
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is. - Mario Benedetti
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. - Mario Benedetti
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general. - Mario Benedetti
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle. - Mario Benedetti
We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder. - Mario Benedetti
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. - 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 Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing a… - Mario Benedetti
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing a…
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life. - Mario Benedetti
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.
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