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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
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.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
Strangely, Dante’s Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
The poet does not know – often he will never know – whom he really writes for.
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
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.
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
