The work of this man of the South, while deeply inscribed in his native region, has never ceased to open up to other horizons (the United States, Quebec, Brazil, Russia) and this taste for travel sometimes suggested an American poet.
This openness to the world is manifested in his friendships with Henry Miller, Henk Breuker, Curzio Malaparte, Joseph Delteil, Richard Aldington, Camilo José Cela, Lawrence Durrell, Jean Carrière, Gaston Miron ...
The friend of painters (Pierre Soulages, Jean Hugo, Albert Ayme [fr], Vincent Bioulès...) he has often collaborated with them to create precious and sought-after books.
As a child, Temple was a "book-eater", fascinated by the novelists of the adventure (Jules Verne, James Fenimore Cooper, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and the "double heroes" such as Jack London, Arthur Rimbaud or Cendrars for whom "Writing is only one of the many forms of life".
In his "infinite hunting," this enthusiastic collector never ceased to collect what natural history, archeology, music, painting, travel, love or gastronomy offered to his gluttony.