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

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

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

“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.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

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

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

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

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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