Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. – Eugenio Montale

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. – Eugenio Montale
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. – 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