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No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

Holidays - Have no pity.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

Your speech so halting and unguarded
is the only thing left
with which to content myself.
But the accent is changed, the colour is different.

Absent one, how I miss you on this shore
that conjures you and fades if you're away

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.