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

“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.”

Eugenio Montale · Poetry

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Eugenio Montale

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

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Eugenio Montale

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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Eugenio Montale

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

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Eugenio Montale

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

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