My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

- 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…

- Mario Benedetti

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

- Mario Benedetti

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

- Mario Benedetti

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

- Mario Benedetti

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

- 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.

- Mario Benedetti

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

- Mario Benedetti

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

- Mario Benedetti