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.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

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.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

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.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.