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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.”

Eugenio Montale · Poetry

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Eugenio Montale

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

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Eugenio Montale

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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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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Eugenio Montale

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.

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