Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.