The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.Eugenio Montale
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
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In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
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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?
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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
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