Too many lives are needed to make just one.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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