Aim Quote by Octavio Paz

“[Eroticism is] the poetry of the body, the testimony of the senses. Like a poem, it is not linear, it meanders and twists back…

— Octavio Paz

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

— Anais Nin

“. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our…

— Audre Lorde

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of…

— Audre Lorde

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

— Audre Lorde

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions…

— Anais Nin

Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they…

— Audre Lorde

Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.

— Esther Perel

“Poetry leads to the same place as all forms of eroticism — to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads us to…

— Georges Bataille

People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.

— Catharine MacKinnon

“Recognizing the power of the erotic within our lives can give us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world, rather than merely…

— Audre Lorde