Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

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.

Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.

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.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.