Mario Benedetti quotes:

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

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

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

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

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

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.

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.

osea, resumiendo, estoy jodido y radiante

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

An intellectuals 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.

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

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

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