Forgettings by Ángel Crespo

Every poet must write to destroy himself, so that his last poem makes all the others forgotten.


Let us build palaces of poetry, or simple cabins, but let us put within the masonry, or the adobe, sticks of dynamite. And don't forget the fuses.


Those skilled at managing their fame cheat themselves.


The memory to learn, the intelligence to understand that it's better to forget, the will to do so.



[from Sentence: a journal of prose poetics (No. 2, 2004), translated by Steven J. Stewart]