Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

Whatever is not stone is light

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.