It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

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

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.