From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Interpretation
The poet draws inspiration from solitude and darkness to create powerful writing.
This quote illustrates how the solitude experienced at night can lead to profound creativity and reflection for a poet. In these moments of darkness, the poet engages in a dialogue with his thoughts and surroundings, resulting in a 'diary' that challenges the status quo and provokes thought in those who are inactive or apathetic.
In practice
In a poetry reading, you might say this quote to emphasize the power of creativity from solitude.
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.
Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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