Roberto Benigni Quotes

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

I was born to travel and write verse.

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.