The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

The most magical thing I have come across is a beautiful face with a beautiful heart and it's you❤ ❤

There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine...

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the Cup of Love.

Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.