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Eugenio Montale · Poetry

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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

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

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

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

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