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

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

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