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Aída Cartagena Portalatín
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“...I had the key to what I wanted in literature. I don't write a certain way because other people write that way. I write according to how I think on the day I write.”
Aída Cartagena Portalatín (1918–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that for writers there is a certain level of maturity that cannot be improvised, and I don't see that in newer writers...culture and learning are basic things. There is that aspect that is very demanding.”
Aída Cartagena Portalatín (1918–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I insist that, although I have had to work very hard on my intellectual formation, I have benefited the most from my relationships with others...everything I've learned, I've learned while getting to know people. I prefer a friendship that enriches me, not hearing about the kids, or about the war, or anything like that. And traveling. I've learned more from traveling than from books.”
Aída Cartagena Portalatín (1918–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...I tell you these unimportant details so you can get an idea of the meager resources, of the tenacity one needs, because I don't think a poet is born, the poet is made. People think it's all about writing things like, "I went out early... and the sun came out, and the moon," and so forth, making it up as you go along. But it is not like that. That's why my poetry has been read in so many circles. I broke with traditional poetry with La tierra escrita. It was a scandal.”
Aída Cartagena Portalatín (1918–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source