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

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

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

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

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

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.