"Poetry is a very powerful instrument of consolation," said the poet Joan Margarit in December, at his home in Sant Just Desvern. Severely ill, Margarit said in this conversation that he was preparing his last book, Animal de bosc [Woods animal], which he would like to present "when the world had left the pandemic behind". It will not be possible: the author died this Tuesday at midday of lymph cancer at the age of 82. "You write to go deep inside yourself," he said at the time, coinciding with the awarding of the Cervantes Prize, a year after the announcement. What you find inside you is also inside others. By writing about the truth of my inner self, I realised that I was consoling the reader. Despite his illness, Margarit continued to seek solace in poetry until the last moment. Now it is his numerous readers who will have to turn to the author's verses to rediscover his serene, courageous and consoling voice.