If poetry is not, as has been said, �absolute reality�, it comes very close to it, for poetry has a strong longing for, and a deep perception of, reality, situated as it is at that extreme limit of cooperation where the real seems to assume shape in the poem.

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Every creation of the mind is first of all �poetic� in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

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Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

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Poetry is above all a way of life, of integral life. The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

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Poetry has the charm of escaping from the vicious circle of custom.

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We need to listen to that human voice which we call poetry, that voice which is constantly in danger of being extinguished through lack of love, but is always reborn

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Poetry is necessary to this modern world in which we are afflicted by fear and disquiet. Poetry has its roots in human breath - and what would we be if our breath were diminished? Poetry is an act of confidence - and who knows whether our unease is not due to a lack of confidence?

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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

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Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

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