“The experience of One Day in the Secret Forest of Words is, without any doubt or blandishment, an experience of rapport with the observable and of openness to its profound import.” Carlos Andrés Landázuri Súarez, Universidad de las Artes, Ecuador.
“Vicente Valero is a writer of great metaphysical profundity, but a realist withal, not abstract. He has the privilege of observing both death and love.” Octavio Paz Nobel Prize for Literature, 1990.