“For me, poetry is always a search for order.”
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
