The Writer Of Stories Or Of Novels

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.

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.

My Readers At That Time Were Still Men Of Letters; But There Had To Be Other People Waiting To Read My Poems.

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.

War, I Have Always Said, Forces Men To Change Their Standards, Regardless Of Whether Their Country Has Won Or Lost.