“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

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

“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.”

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

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

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

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

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

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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

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

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

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

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

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