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.

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

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

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

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.