The public, regardless of its social origin, likes, above all, that which is easily accessible.

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

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.

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

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.

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.

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.