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

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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

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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

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

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

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

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

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

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

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