My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

A man is either free or he is not.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

God is man idealized.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.