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.

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.

In the life of every Christian, there is a wilderness experience

Sometimes words do fly in the sky but when words do fly in the sky, there are no keyboards to type.

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.

When you help someone up a hill, you find yourself closer to the top.

If I had to choose a single action I guess I would say stop driving.

Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.

The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.

To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.