I am so grateful for poetry...Poetry sustains us. - Claribel Alegría Vides

What do I hope for this next century? That the human race thinks deeply and puts aside hate, that we end all discrimination.

I hope we go back into our Indian roots in the next century, bring them to the surface, study them. There is only an elite that knows of the great richness and wisdom in the Popol Vuh (The Book of the Dawn of Life), we are going to get as much from this as we do from our Spanish heritage.

In essence, all poets contribute to writing the great endless poem.