The Role of Poetry
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. —Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of PoetryThe Italian poet Ungaretti, when interviewed on transgression by director Pasolini for the 1964 Love Meetings documentary, said that the foundation of poetry is to transgress all laws: "I am a poet and as such I begin transgressing all the laws by doing poetry".
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