I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.