Cirilo F. Bautista Quotes & Sayings

... misfortune and creativity go together. — Cirilo F. Bautista

Nevertheless we laughed as best we could
Because we are helpless while we are loved. — Cirilo F. Bautista

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character. — Cirilo F. Bautista

Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact. — Cirilo F. Bautista

It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing them to give their best every moment of creation. Writing becomes their medicine, their way of escape, the catalyst for their imagination. — Cirilo F. Bautista

Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something much more meaningful, much more valuable. A life lived and relived, then, emitting intensity and beauty only achievable by a journey through pain. — Cirilo F. Bautista