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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown

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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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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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. – Eugenio Montale

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communication
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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. – Robert Fitzgerald

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You dont make a poem with ideas, but with words. – Stephane Mallarme

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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman

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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. – Theodore Sturgeon

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