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

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

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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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

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

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

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

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

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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