A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.