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

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.

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.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

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.

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