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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.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Every moment is nothing without end.
Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
Light is time thinking about itself.
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.
