War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

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

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

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.