Roberto Juarroz quotes

Roberto Juarroz quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Snow has turned the world into a cemetery. But the world already was a cemetery and the snow has only come to announce it.”
-- Roberto Juarroz

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“There are clothes which keep rejuvenating themselves instead of getting worn out.”
-- Roberto Juarroz

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“Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.”
“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”
“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”
“I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?”
“Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.”
“A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.”
“The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.”
“Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.”

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