Eugenio Montale Quotes
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Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
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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.
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Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
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In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
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Holidays - Have no pity.