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.

Holidays - Have no pity.

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

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

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

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.

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.