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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.