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

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

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.

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.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

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