Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
Eugenio Montale
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When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. -
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. -
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. -
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. -
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- Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
- I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
- 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.
- 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.