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Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe.

..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.

poetry's favourite moment is when one loses one's footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought

Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays its game.