Life & Wisdom Quote by Rafael Cadenas

A hunger for innocence, stated with the discipline of someone who knows innocence doesn’t come naturally. Cadenas isn’t selling wide-eyed optimism; he’s staging a revolt against habituation. “New eyes” is the poet’s old fantasy, but here it lands as an ethical demand: unlearn the routines that turn reality into background noise. To “be surprised by everything” sounds naïve until you hear the desperation inside it. Surprise isn’t entertainment; it’s proof of aliveness, an antidote to the numbing that politics, trauma, and time itself can produce.

Then the line pivots into its most audacious claim: “feel the infinity of time.” Not “have” it, not “control” it - feel it. That verb matters. Cadenas gestures toward a mode of perception where the present dilates, where seconds stop being currency and become space. It’s a lyric version of resistance to modernity’s main coercion: the sense that life is always running out. Infinity here isn’t a metaphysical puzzle; it’s a recovered capacity for attention so deep it makes time stop behaving like a threat.

Cadenas, shaped by Venezuela’s political turbulence and a long poetic career marked by spiritual abrasion and clarity, writes like someone wary of grand claims but unwilling to surrender wonder. The subtext is that fatigue is the default setting, and renewal is work. The intent is almost programmatic: re-enchant the world without lying about how hard that is.