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.

Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

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.

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

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.