marcin
(Marcin)
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populist ─ who had freed themselves from
the Arcadian sirens of old Meli. The poet, a
man at the same time like other men and
different from them, lives the life of
everyone, but with a particular sensibility
that makes him a thief ─ Buttitta had written
in one of his poems ─ because he goes
among his fellow men, sinks his hands in
their hearts and opens everyone’s brains /
like a pomegranate / and sucks their
thoughts.”^3
Buttitta rather assimilates the craft of the
poet to that of the peasant, who writes in the
earth as the poet writes in the minds. If
poeta nascitur, the refinement of the tèkne
lets him reach high summits: “one is born a
poet but also becomes one.”^4 On the
strength of these potentials and
achievements, the poet can leave furrows in