“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”

“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”

“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”

“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”

“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”