Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.
Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.