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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. -

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

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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical. – Eugenio Montale

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Alienation
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Eugenio Montale
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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

Category:
Poetry
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Every single soul is a poem. – Michael Franti

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I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. – Robert Hass

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Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. – Toi Derricotte

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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. – Mark Strand

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