Gary Anthony Soto (born April 12, 1952) is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.
You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.
I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.
It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.
Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.
going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere
Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.
I drank that sentence and began to glow.
The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors. . . not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry. . . I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.
Etienne de La Boetie
Basil Rathbone
Isaac of Nineveh
Jay Wiseman
Brittany Howard
Margarethe von Trotta
Stone Gossard
John Baldacci
David Petraeus
Arnold J. Toynbee
Nachman of Breslov
Nathalie Emmanuel