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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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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
The world is born when two people kiss
Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
