“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.”
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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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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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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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