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

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

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.

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

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

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

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.