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

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Source : Giannina Braschi (1998). “Yo-yo boing!”, Latin Amer Literary Review Press

Giannina Braschi

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“I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.”
“In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'”
“I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.”
“It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.”
“Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.”
“Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. They will control the climate and the Solar System just as they control the Earth. They will travel beyond the limits of our planetary system; they will reach other Suns, and use their fresh energy instead of the energy of their dying luminary.”
“Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.”
“In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published.”

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