“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 sort of a homecoming.”

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

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

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

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

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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

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

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

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

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

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

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

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

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

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”