“Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.”
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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.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
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.
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
