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

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

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

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

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.

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

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.