True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

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.

(T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that you die and every other thing is not true or false it is a mix. It is both. It is none.

Don't allow anyone to talk you out from the habit of following your true passion in life. People are not God

If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

But I know in my heart what I'm doing is right.