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Eugenio Montale

"The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for."

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"The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for."

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"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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"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."
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"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."
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"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
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