Poetry is sort of a homecoming.

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

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 like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.

Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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

Wine is bottled poetry.

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

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

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.

You are the butterfly and you are gone.

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

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

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

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