“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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

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

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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

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

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

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

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

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

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

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

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

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

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

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

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

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