Logo
Quote by Eugenio Montale
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school antholo

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

Other quotes by 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? – Eugenio Montale

Category:
Future
Author
Eugenio Montale
Read Quote

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

Category:
Poetry
Author
Eugenio Montale
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Eugenio Montale
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. – James Martineau

Category:
Poetry

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. – Allen Tate

Category:
Poetry

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
Poetry

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. – Laura Riding

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Its a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and thats very difficult, really difficult and very brave. – Nicole Kidman

Category:
Trust

To the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion. – Paul Gardner

Category:
Soccer

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes. – Harlan Mills

Category:
Programming

What the candystore was to other kids, the bookstore was to me. The library was my vacation. – Terri Guillemets, “Young bookworm,” 1998

Category:
Books