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

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

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.

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.

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

Holidays - Have no pity.