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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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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
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.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
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.
The world is born when two people kiss
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
