Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

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.

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

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

Holidays - Have no pity.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

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