Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.Eugenio Montale
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.
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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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