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Sometimes I am the kind of man who, if he met the inventor of the sonnet in the underworld, would say to him with great respect (if there is any left, in the other world):

“My dear colleague, I salute you most humbly. I do not know the worth of your verses, which I have not read [. . . ]; but however bad they are, however flat, insipid, shallow, stupid, and naively made they may be, I still hold you in my heart above all other poets on earth and in Hades! . . . You invented a form, and the greatest poets have adapted themselves
to that form.”

- Paul Valery