Quotes by Chilean authors

"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty"

"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests"

"We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain"

"But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie"

"At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues"

"We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders"

"We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all"

"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers"

"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross"

"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak"

"It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds"

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long"

"A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly"

"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread"