Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

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Light is time thinking about itself.

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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.

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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.

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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

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Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

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The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

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My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.

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