Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.