Poet in our time
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Source: Satura, 1962-1970: Poems
“Eppure resta che qualcosa è accaduto, forse un niente che è tutto.”
“Sono i silenzi in cui si vede in ogni ombra umana che si allontana qualche disturbata Divinità.”
Source: Ossi di seppia / Le occasioni
“Niemand zou verzen schrijven als het er in de poëzie om ging zich verstaanbaar te maken.”
Source: Ossi di seppia
Source: Selected poems
Source: Poet in our time
“I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.”
Source: Selected essays [of] Eugenio Montale
Source: Poet in our time
“However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.”
“I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.”
“Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.”
“The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.”