On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.

Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult to die. To make life is more difficult by far.

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire

Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.

Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

If it's not in your heart you're not gonna make it. At the end, looking back, you know its worth it.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

Beneficence is a duty.

It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.

Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved.

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am.