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

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

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

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

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

“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 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.”

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

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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

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

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

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

“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.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”