You are the butterfly and you are gone.

Wine is bottled poetry.

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

Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry is sort of a homecoming.

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

Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.

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

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

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

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

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

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

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

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.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Always be a poet, even in prose.