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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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 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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