Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
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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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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
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Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
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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.
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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
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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.
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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.
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