Thus, The Poet's Word Is Beginning To

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'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.

Poetry Is The Revelation Of A Feeling That The Poet Believes To Be Interior And Personal But Which The Reader Recognizes As His Own.

The Poet's Spoken Discourse Often Depends On A Mystique, On The Spiritual Freedom That Finds Itself Enslaved On Earth.

The Writer Of Stories Or Of Novels Settles On Men And Imitates Them; He Exhausts The Possibilities Of His Characters.