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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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The world is born when two people kiss
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.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
To love is to undress our names.
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.
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.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
