Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

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

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

Holidays - Have no pity.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

If you are positive about your calling, then it does not matter how hard or complicated it is

Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Strong women, that's who I really respect.

Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

To be cool is to believe. To stay cool is to have the sweet fragments of serenity rock your wig away.

Then strong, warm arms wrapped around me from behind. "I've got you," Tod whispered in my ear.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.