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.

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.

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

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

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

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

Holidays - Have no pity.