Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

Solitude is the profoundest fact

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.