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

“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.”

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

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

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

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

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

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

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

“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.”

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

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

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

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

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”