Mario Benedetti Quotes & Sayings

In life you have to avoid three geometric figures - vicious circles, love triangles and square minds — Mario Benedetti

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers. — Mario Benedetti

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life. — Mario Benedetti

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder. — Mario Benedetti

Perfection is a polished collection of errors. — Mario Benedetti

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. — Mario Benedetti

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day. — Mario Benedetti

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile. — Mario Benedetti

An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet. — Mario Benedetti

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general. — Mario Benedetti

My tactic is to look at you
To learn how you are
Love you as you are
My tactic is to talk to you
And listen to you
And construct with words
An indestructible bridge
My tactic is to stay in your memory
I don't know how
Nor with what pretext
But stay within you
My tactic is to be honest
And know you are too
And that we don't sell each other illusions
So that between us there is no curtain or abyss
My strategy instead is
Deeper and simpler.
My strategy is that some day
I don't know how, nor with what pretext
That finally you need me. — Mario Benedetti

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. — Mario Benedetti

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is. — Mario Benedetti

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle. — Mario Benedetti

A confession: solitude no longer hurt me. — Mario Benedetti