Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
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The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.Eugenio Montale
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
Eugenio Montale
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
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
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
Eugenio Montale
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
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