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
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. – Eugenio Montale
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. – Eugenio Montale
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. – Eugenio Montale