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

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

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

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

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

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.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.