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

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings and society. Art was an asceticism, a spiritual heroism; Revolution was the construction of a universal church.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

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