Poetry

“One cannot be a good soldier and a good poet at the same time.”

“English poetry is wonderful but it is not for me.”

“I am determined that this war, with all its powers for devastation, shall not master my poeting.”

“From the moment you get on a theater stage, from the moment you go up there, on this stage, you become a poem.”

“You can’t be an observer just because you are a poet. You must also contribute to the fighting.”

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.”

“Fikri hür, irfanı hür, vicdanı hür, bir şairim.”

“Poetry is a means of redemption.”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

“Tôi cũng may là có được nhiều tình yêu để làm thơ nhưng đó không phải là nguồn duy nhất, còn có cả tình yêu đất nước, thiên nhiên...”

“El silencio es en la poesía, como en la naturaleza, un medio de expresión.”

“ผมจะไปเกิดเป็นกวีในทุกภพทุกชาติ”

“I believe in poetic cinema.”

““its evenings lit by glow-worms, its mysterious nights broken by the shrieks of owls””

“All that I write, whether poetry or music, centers around God.”

“The role of the poet has never changed ever since there was poetry.”

“إذا الشعرُ لم يهززك عند سماعهِ فليس خليقًا أن يُقالَ له شعرُ”

“My only duty as a poet is to defend the use of language.”