Occupation: Poet Birth: March 31, 1914 Death: April 19, 1998
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone..
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves..
Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is pe….
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death.
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them..
Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-….
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual..
Deserve your dream..
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder..
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most st….
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most p….
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for t….
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped..
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nat….
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone..
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 consecr….
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them ….
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all fo….
If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide..
Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism o….