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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.