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

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

The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

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.

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.

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