Poetry

“Ne efsûnkâr imişsin âh ey dîdâr-ı hürriyet Esîr-i aşkın olduk gerçi kurtulduk esâretten”

“The great big public thinks of poetry, particularly modern poetry, as something highbrow.”

“The conclusion of a poem is the most important part and hardest to write.”

“Yo creo que la poesía se escapa de toda definición.”

“The poetry, the culture itself, exists not in a dictionary but in the tradition of the spoken word.”

“Ce que cherche la poésie, c’est à déconstruire les idéologies.”

“I revere the memory of Pope, I respect and honour his abilities; but I do not think him at the head of his profession.”

“I’m interested in revelation, in what will be revealed through the poem, through me — not what I have to reveal, but what it has to reveal.”

“I found it impossible to write in the stanza form.”

“I am a poet and not a politician.”

“To resist is to be a poet and to live an uninterrupted metaphor.”

“I credit poetry, in other words, both for being itself and for being a help.”

“La poesía es respiración y silencio.”

“Drawing is the connecting tissue in my practice, a thinking tool that I use to align my art with poetry.”

“I believe that the sentimental has a place in poetry.”