Eugenio Montale

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a…

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely…

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an…

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a…

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites…

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

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always…

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

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is…

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

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of…

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility…

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low…