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.

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

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

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.