Quote by Eugenio Montale
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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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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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. – Eugenio Montale

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There is probably nothing wrong with art for arts sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. – Allen Tate

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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. – Laura Marling

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. – Charles Simic

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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. – Robert Frost, 1935

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