True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

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.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.