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

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This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. – Eugenio Montale

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

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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. – Franz Grillparzer

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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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All the modern verse plays, theyre terrible theyre mostly about the poetry. Its more important that the play is first. – Denis Johnson

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