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

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

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

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

Death, Principles, Question, Religious

"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."

Writing, Dictatorship, First, Justification

"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."

Poetry, Danger, Man, Order

"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."

Man, Men, Beginning, Letters, Word

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

Life, Tradition

"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 to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things."

Man, Men, Being, Desire, Earth

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

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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."

Life, Dreams, Acceptance, Illness

"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."

Certainty, Judgment, Order, Scripture

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