I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.