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

The value of e-commerce is not in the e, but in the commerce.

Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horror, stupor, astonishment, joy, enthusiasm, nausea, inescapable attraction. What had attracted me? It was difficult to say: Human kind cannot bear much reality.