"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."
― Eugenio Montale
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Poetry
― Eugenio Montale
More From Eugenio Montale
- "For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music."
- "However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process."― Franz Grillparzer
- "Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."― Walter Scott
- "For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ."― Christopher Smart