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.

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

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

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

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

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

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