you tell me
that words are not enough
to make us free.
I answer you
that we don't know yet
how far in time or place
a word can go,
who will pick it up, what mouth
with sufficient faith
to give it its true form


~Ángel González (Roots & Wings: Poetry from Spain 1900-1975. Hardie St. Martin, Editor. Harper & Row. 1976. p.11)