I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Too many lives are needed to make just 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.

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.

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

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.