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

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

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.

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.

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

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