What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
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.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
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.