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

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

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

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

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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

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

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

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

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

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

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

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

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

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

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

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