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Deserve your dream.
Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
Death is the mother of forms.
Whatever is not stone is light
To love is to undress our names.
Solitude is the profoundest fact
Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.
Loving means getting rid of names.
Light is time thinking about itself.
Every moment is nothing without end.
To fight evil is to fight ourselves.
The world is born when two people kiss
Without democracy freedom is a chimera
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.
The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
The value of e-commerce is not in the e, but in the commerce.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.