My Readers At That Time Were Still

Europeans Know The Importance Of The Resistance; It Has Been The Shining Example Of The Modern Conscience.

A Poet Clings To His Own Tradition And Avoids Internationalism.

At The Point When Continuity Was Interrupted By The First Nuclear Explosion, It Would Have Been Too Easy To Recover The Formal Sediment Which Linked Us With An Age Of Poetic Decorum, Of A Preoccupation With Poetic Sounds.

Religious Poetry, Civic Poetry, Lyric Or Dramatic Poetry Are All Categories Of Man's Expression Which Are Valid Only If The Endorsement Of Formal Content Is Valid.

We Wrote Verses That Condemned Us, With No Hope Of Pardon, To The Most Bitter Solitude.