“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

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

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

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

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

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

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

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

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

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

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

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

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

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