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.

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.

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

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

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.