We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude..

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 cultur….

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 ….

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

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal con….

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

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

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 He….

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism..

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are perman….

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter strug….

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue..

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image….

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the r….

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet ….

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative ….

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

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters..

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

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