We have a collection of 10 Poetry quotes from Eugenio Montale
"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me." (ID 35531)
"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." (ID 35532)
"However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies." (ID 35533)
"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready." (ID 35534)
"Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry." (ID 35535)
"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one." (ID 35536)
"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." (ID 35537)
"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." (ID 35538)
"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know." (ID 35539)
"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." (ID 35540)