Eugenio Montale Quotes

• Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Poetry, Visual, Musical

• 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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• This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Human, Poetry

• 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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  Tags in Poetry, Enthusiastic, Countries

• Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Poetic, Production, Question

• Too many lives are needed to make just one.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Lives, Needed

• True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Poetry, Owner, People

Eugenio Montale (27)

Birth:	12th October, 1896
Death:	12th September, 1981
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Editor, Poet, Translator, Writer

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