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.

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

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

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.

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

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.