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.
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
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.
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.