The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.
More Quotes from Eugenio Montale:
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.Eugenio Montale
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
Eugenio Montale
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
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 occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
Eugenio Montale
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
Eugenio Montale
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