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
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
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