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

~Eugenio Montale

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The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

~Eugenio Montale

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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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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.

~Eugenio Montale

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Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

~Eugenio Montale

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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

~Eugenio Montale

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Just Just One Lives Make Many Needed Too

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Poet

Born: October 12th, 1896

Died: September 12th, 1981

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