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

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

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

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.

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

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

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.