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" Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. "
Eugenio Montale
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" There 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. "
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" However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. "
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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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" Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. "
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" Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion. "
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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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" It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. "
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" 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? "
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" Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. "
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" The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. "
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" I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. "
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" Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. "
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" Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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