However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
More Quotes from Eugenio Montale:
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.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
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
Eugenio Montale
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
Eugenio Montale
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
Eugenio Montale
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
Eugenio Montale
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