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

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

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

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

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