True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
Eugenio Montale
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. -
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that. -
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. -
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. -
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.
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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.