Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
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Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
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The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.
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