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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
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