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

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

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