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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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Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Light is time thinking about itself.
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
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.
To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
