Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
The quote describes the act of writing verses or poems that resulted in condemnation or punishment, leaving no hope for forgiveness and leading to a profound sense of loneliness or isolation.