If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

Every life has a file, if you will.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Bad literature is a form of treason.