“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

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

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

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

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

“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.”

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

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”