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

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

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

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

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“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.”

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

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

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

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

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

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

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

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

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”