Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

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A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

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I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

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The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.

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For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

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Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

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Deserve your dream.

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There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.

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My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.

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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

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