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

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

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 Hermetic movement

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

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems

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 him a sign of the acceptance of life

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

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

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

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

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism

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 order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture

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

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

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

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

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 Hermetic movement

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

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems

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 him a sign of the acceptance of life

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

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

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

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

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism

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 order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture

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

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