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

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.

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.

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

In the frame of a known phenomenon of life, a human could be defined as the only proven thinking creature.

You have a spark. It is real. It is you. And right now, it is being activated. You cannot ignore the spark any longer.

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

Every time I see a happy couple I want to give them a polygraph.

I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.

The world measures the government of a nation on the basis of its condition in its own country, on how strong their word is in their own country.

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

What is clear is that consumers know a calorie isn't a calorie. There are good fats and bad fats and good proteins and bad ones.