In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.

From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.

The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex.

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings.

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.