A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

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

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.