Eugenio Montale Poet

Gender: Male
Citizenship: Italy
Born: Oct 12, 1896
Died: Sep 12, 1981

Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is widely considered the greatest Italian lyric poet since Giacomo Leopardi. In 1973 he was awarded the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in Struga, Macedonia.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

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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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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

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