"The poet beginner wants to express his emotions, his experiences, he dives inside himself to find them and then he writes them down. Of what he expresses, a hundredth part reaches the reader, because the young reader does not have control, mastery, of the resources of expression". With this clarity the poet Miguel D'Ors expressed himself in the meeting that he held with the students of the new Degree in Literature and Creative Writing that the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Navarra has been teaching since this course.  

D'Ors pointed out that when the poet acquires maturity, he realizes that the important thing is not to express his feelings and emotions, but to provoke analogous emotions in the reader. "Poetic maturity implies the effect, worrying about provoking, and here is core topic the concern for the mastery of the means, of the language". The writer, author of an extensive work, wanted to insist that a poet must master the means of expression, the technique, the language, which is what makes the message reach, to provoke emotions.

The poet Miguel D'Ors (Photo: Manuel Castells)

He also wanted to point out that the mastery of method and rhythm does not imply the need to conform to it, and that free verse is just as licit as traditional verse - adjusted to meter and rhythm - and that it has a great musicality, and is more memorable.

The core topic, according to the poet, whose work has been translated into English, French, Portuguese, German, Russian, Armenian and Polish, is in having good poetic ideas, being able to develop them through the right means. "There are examples of good ideas and bad developments, and vice versa. The core topic is in striking the balance."