THE SILENT FAITH OF THE BLANK PAGE

For My Unknown Readers

ROLANDO GABRIELLI

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The blank page has been my greatest influence and my most demanding teacher. It knows my doubts, my hesitations, my frustrations, my achievements, and, above all, my sleepless nights. Success belongs to the box office, to the subtle arithmetic of stars aligned across the planet. Poetry follows its own course through history, confronting death with the living force of its emotions and its words.

Poetry is the one art that composes its own music and conducts its own orchestra whenever it chooses.

In these turbulent times, marked by aggression and by the threats of apocalyptic prophets against the most vulnerable, it is difficult to imagine an artist withdrawn upon a cloud, watching as the world and humankind burn together in the same fire.

The world—and those who conduct the true orchestra—has not needed to declare a Third World War for us to witness the horror and terror of its own masterpiece.

We have all been warned that we walk upon a sheet of glass, like elephants balancing on a spider's web, staring into the void cast by their own shadows.

This is a century that seems strangely comfortable with human folly, a folly that has gained absolute dominion over the most intelligent species on Earth—the very species bent on its own destruction.

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Poetry is yourself and everything around you: what you read, where you travel, what you eat—in a word, your life. Alphabet soup is an old metaphor, yet it remains the finest nourishment for a poet: to ingest the alphabet, the dictionary, and every page that has been written, as well as every page still waiting to be written. No junk food. No disposable literature. Simply put, poetry is life. It is the perpetual present that gathers the past while living each day, nourishing who you are and what you do, your own circumstances, and that enduring hope we call the future.

Nature itself, and human nature, belong to this poetic realm—to the word that names, founds, and, at times, even prophesies.

Never forget: what matters is not who speaks the last word, but whether it is a new word—and a true one.

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