Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

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.

As to posterity I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.