Italian - Poet | October 12, 1896 - September 12, 1981
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
Eugenio Montale
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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
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Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
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The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
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