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

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

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.

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.

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.

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

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.