Poems List

a crystal willow, a poplar of water, a tall fountain the wind arches over, a tree deep-rooted yet dancing still, a course of a river that turns, moves on, doubles back, and comes full circle, forever arriving:

Sunstone 2 [1957]

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'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
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Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
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By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.
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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 permitted and what is forbidden.
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Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

My steps along this street Resound in another street In which I hear my steps Passing along this street In which Only the mist is real.

Configurations. Here (Aquí) 3

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No doubt the nearness of death and the brotherhood of men-at-arms, at whatever time and in whatever country, always produces an atmosphere favorable to the extraordinary, to all that rises above the human condition and breaks the circle of solitude that surrounds each one of us.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.
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