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.
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.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
After the invention of printing, poetry becomes vertical, does not fill the white space completely, it is rich in new paragraphs and repetitions.
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