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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
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Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: Italian
Born: October 12, 1896
Died: September 12, 1981

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Eugenio Montale

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
Eugenio Montale

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
Eugenio Montale

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
Eugenio Montale

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
Eugenio Montale

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
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Certain, Few, Initiated, Know, Only, Owner, Pictures, Poetry, Similar, True, Unknown, Which, Whose
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Certain, Few, Initiated, Know, Only, Owner, Poetry, Similar, True, Unknown, Which, Whose
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