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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

“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.”

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

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

“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.”

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

“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.”