For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.