#poe

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#everyone #grasp #paper #pencil #piece

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

— Eugenio Montale

#know #never #often #poet #really

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#authoritarian #countries #crowd #enthusiastic #especially

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#always #creations #die #great #human

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

— Eugenio Montale

#few #initiated #know #only #owner

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#category #except #i #i see #no reason

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#excitement #fabric #governed #gravity #i

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#cannot #critic #cruel #enchantment #forever

Poetry is all nouns and verbs. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#poetry #verbs

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#connection #discovery #does #form #gesture