Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints ima... -Eugenio Montale

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

Eugenio Montale , Poet
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Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet and critic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his distinctive poetic voice and his mastery of lyrical expression. His work has had a profound impact on Italian literature, making him a celebrated figure in the world of poetry.

Eugenio Montale Quotes to Explore

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know....
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....
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regi...
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one....
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry....
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 born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the f...
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready....
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...
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me....

Poetry Quotes to Explore

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...