Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

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

If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.

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

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death