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

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

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

"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."

"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."

"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."

"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
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