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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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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
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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.
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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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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
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I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
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Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
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