Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for hi...
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 of a serene dialogue.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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 then becomes a danger.
No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
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 real world.
