“Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.”

“If only I could fly away
Revel in the moonlight
Try to find a good life
Find a way to break the chains
Find a way to break the chains
Struggle just to hear the call
It's easy now, easy now
Heaven is a mile away
I'll burn it all and leave today”

“He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing.”

“Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”

“The priority for the poet must be his poetry, the poetry must determine his agenda and deadlines”

“You go to truth by way of poetry and I go to poetry by way of truth.”

“There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.”

“If you want to change people by talking about God, then there is only one way: instead of teaching God, you must live God. Because: “teaching” God is unthinkable in any other way than the way you would teach love or poetry. You teach love only through love, poetry only through writing poetry, faith in God only through a contagious way of trusting.”

“The line is a way of thinking in poetry, by poetry.. it paces the poem.”

“It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.”