"The duende is a power, not a working; a struggle, not a thought. I have heard an old master guitarist say: 'The duende is not in the throat; the duende surges up from the soles of the feet.'"

"The poet is a small god."

"The butterfly is a dancing flower. The flower a tethered butterfly."

"The people who abandon their homes for the sake of the people are the real heroes."

"The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, measure it, plumb it and descend into it."