Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.