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

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

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

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

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

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

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

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

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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

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

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

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

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

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