If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.

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.

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.