I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

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

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.