It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

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.

Sufferings lead a man to his soul.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

...The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th. God bless his soul, rest in peace, kid. It's because of him now at least I know what beef is.

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.