Inspirational Quotes by Julio Cortázar — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself.”

“Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.”

“Thirsty for being, the poet ceaselessly reaches out to reality, seeking with the indefatigable harpoon of the poem a reality that is always better hidden, more re(g)al. The poem’s power is as an instrument of possession but at the same time, ineffably, it expresses the desire for possession, like a net that fishes by itself, a hook that is also the desire of the fish. To be a poet is to desire and, at the same time, to obtain, in the exact shape of the desire.”

“I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.”

“Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”