Quote by Eugenio Montale
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. – 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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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry
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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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Poetry
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Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. Youll have that readership. Keep going until you know youre doing work thats worthy. And then see what happens. Thats my advice. – Philip Levine

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Poetry

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results? – John Barton

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Poetry

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Poetry

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Patience is the best medicine. – John Florio

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