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

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

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

“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.”

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

“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 from the frontiers of consciousness.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”