Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

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

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.

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.