Lamberto Pignotti. Poetry and Politics. From The New Italian Poetry. Feelings razed to the ground/ working in common/confronting/ truth with truth/ mistake with mistake,/ we rebuilt them, made them taller,/ but a leaf hesitates to give itself fully./ Even the sun and the sky,/ this sun and this sky, are recent./ Today a color is invented, tomorrow a dream completed/ and this assumes political value,/ a meaning in poetry./ Words like facts get wet in the rain,/ get scalded in the sun./ It's not an effort/ to extract life,/ to purify it from dross,/ it's to live, live more strongly./ With what is the wind meeting us?