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

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

You are the butterfly and you are gone.

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

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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.

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

Poetry is sort of a homecoming.

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

Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.

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

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.