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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• Eugenio Montale:

  Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts i

• Eugenio Montale:

  Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after

• Eugenio Montale:

  The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

• Eugenio Montale:

  There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occu

• Eugenio Montale:

  There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic:

• Eugenio Montale:

  This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of th

• Eugenio Montale:

  Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear.

• Eugenio Montale:

  True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated pe

• Lucius Accius:

  A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

• Lucius Accius:

  Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.