For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.
Marguerite YourcenarA being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
Marguerite YourcenarLittle soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes.
Marguerite YourcenarEverything turns out to be valuable that one does for oneโs self without thought of profit.
Marguerite YourcenarI don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear them, with a clarity that I would call hallucinatory if hallucination didn't mean something else ... A character whom we create can never die, any more than a friend can die ... Through [my characters] I've lived many parallel lives.
Marguerite Yourcenar