Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

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.

Come on up, boys-I'm dead.

If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.

Every event in our lives occurs to teach us something about ourselves.

...I watch her so much that I forget it's raining at all.

I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

Sometimes I forget about taking care of myself.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.