Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.

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

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

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.

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.