Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

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.

Salvation belongs to the Saviour.

Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.

I wasn't under the impersonation you meant me.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

Good students are good at all things.

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

[People] feel a connection to a guy like Omar Mateen. But they clearly are not angry at him.