I have never sought the reason why I write.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.