He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

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

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

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

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

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