Eugenio Montale Poetry Quotes

What did Eugenio Montale say about Poetry?

Eugenio Montale has written many quotes about Poetry. E.g.,

• For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
• However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
• I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

What are the top most famous Poetry quotes by Eugenio Montale?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Poetry by Eugenio Montale.

• For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
• However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
• I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
• Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
• Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
• Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
• 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.
• 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.
• This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
• True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.