For authentic poetry has nothing in common with “poetry”.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

- Italo Calvino, from Invisible Cities, November 3, 1972

“Everything is about sex, except sex: sex is about power.”

“Sex and art are the same thing.”