I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.

- Roque Dalton

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

- Roque Dalton

The rose blinds the sharpshooting champions.

- Roque Dalton

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of be…

- Roque Dalton

I don't believe in angels but the moon is now dead for me. The last glass of wine is gone before the thirst I'm suffering from. The blue grass lost i…

- Roque Dalton