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

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.

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.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

Most of the people don't get their just due until they ain't here no more.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

I feel much more respected in Europe than I do in the States from the press and from the people. Americans expect me to win every match I play.

The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.

My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.