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" 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

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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. "

" Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. "

" 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. "

" Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. "

" I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. "

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" 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. "

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" However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. "

" Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. "

" I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil. "

" Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. "

" Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. "

" 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. "

" Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. "

" Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. "

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Arts

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" I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. "

" Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. "

" The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. "

" In reality art is always for everyone and for no one. "

" Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. "