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

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

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.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

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

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

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.