Marny Poyet / Photo credits: LOIC VENANCE / AFP 9:16 a.m., March 9, 2024
The 26th edition of the Spring of Poets begins this Saturday and will last until March 25.
A national and international festival sponsored by the writer Sylvain Tesson and whose theme this year is “Grace”.
The opportunity to raise awareness of poetry in all its forms.
Perhaps poetry is a bad memory for you.
For 25 years, a festival has been highlighting it, the Spring of Poets.
The 26th edition begins this Saturday and will last until March 25.
For 17 days, this art will be promoted in schools and cultural places.
Europe 1 met passers-by aged 7 to 77 who always have a few verses in mind.
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Verses that remain engraved
She crossed paths with all of us.
If poetry has punctuated our schooling, it is not always synonymous with nostalgia.
"I never liked learning by heart, so it wasn't my thing. I was more mathematical because math, if you understand it, there is nothing to do, there is no work. Poetry, you have to learn it,” says this passerby.
“Long and complicated poems to learn,” remembers this woman interviewed on Europe 1.
Tercet, alexandrine or even quatrain have remained in your school notebooks but the verses remain engraved.
"We remember all the poems that we studied at school at a very young age, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Apollinaire too... Under the Mirabeau bridge flows the Seine, and our loves, I must say I remember, joy always came after pain", recites this walker.
Its musicality also appeals to the little ones.
“I know how to write all my sister's poems: Tomorrow, at dawn, at the hour when the countryside is white, I will leave,” declaims the child.
An early meeting with Victor Hugo and above all the love of beautiful words.