Eugenio Montale Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

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

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

“However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.”

“It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.”

“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.”