Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
Copy Quote View & SharePoetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Copy Quote View & ShareThis 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareHappiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
Copy Quote View & ShareMass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
Copy Quote View & ShareTrue poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
Copy Quote View & ShareFor 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareSlowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
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