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.
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two children beside me... Everything I've done since then was for the purpose of making women look stronger, not naΓ―ve. And so, when everyone started saying I was a misogynist, that really freaked me out. They didn't know me. They didn't know what I had seen in my life. That was the first part of fashion that I hated - people labeling me without knowing me.
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.
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