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The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange
voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body,
another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches,
sings the unknown. It calls to me.
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Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
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.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
The world is born when two people kiss
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
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.
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."
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.
