Eugenio Montale Quotes - Page 2

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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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  People, Owners, Certain

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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.

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  Cutting, Language, Poetic

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

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  Creative, Height, Comedy

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• 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.

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  Country, Squares, Crowds

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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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  Writing, Connections, Poet

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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.

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  Aggravation, Sound, Speech

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