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

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

The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

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

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

Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

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