The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

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

Holidays - Have no pity.

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

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

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