Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game. — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Our necessity. Our open mouth Where bread Goes in And dreams Come out.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share. ” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the end was Franz Kafka. In heaven, the Titans… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“From time to time I feel as though my books and figurines were with me still. But how could they be? Are… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I paid the taxi driver, got out with my suitcase, surveyed my surroundings, and just as I was turning to ask the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“According to Padilla, remembered Amalfitano, all literature could be classified as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. Novels, in general, were heterosexual. Poetry, on… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Brief like beauty, Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I try to find the books that I lost or forgot more than 30 years ago on another continent, with the hope and dedication… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“In a word, and bluntly: as they walked around Sankt Pauli, it came to Pelletier and Espinoza that the search for Archimboldi could never… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time beside the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“The brief sound is like a color swallowed by a crack. But what color?” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“The fourth dimension, he liked to say, encompasses the three dimensions and consequently puts them in their place, that is, it obliterates the dictatorship… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
