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. – Eugenio Montale

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

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