The public, regardless of its social origin, likes, above all, that which is easily accessible..

The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner….

The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes..

It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of ….

Solitude is an essential element of poetry..

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd..

Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation..

Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry ….

Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak wit….

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers..

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar..

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination..

From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discov….

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come..

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it..