Why doesn’t poetry say anything to the occidentals in this sad XXIst century?
Even in bookstores, those stores becoming less visited and which seem destined to disappear, the poetry books usually occupy only a small space in a dark corner and little traveled of the business. These small works that talk about emotions, passion, tenderness, desire, have been curiously neglected, as if all those feelings, so human, so deeply rooted in the very substance of man, proved strangers to ourselves, now, to our petty immediate interests. Subjected to continuous brain washing, society bent on making simple dual machines of production and consumption, but we will always have Petrarch's sonnets to remind us of our dignity as human beings.
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