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

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.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

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

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.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.