However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

Holidays - Have no pity.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.

KURT: ....no way in hell he’s getting away with short changing you.”KERRY ANNE: But like you said, I don’t need it so why?KURT: Because it’s rightfully yours sweetheart.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.