To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

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.

The world is born when two people kiss

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.