#poetry

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. ↗

— Bette Midler

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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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

— Eugenio Montale

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

— Eugenio Montale

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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. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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

— Eugenio Montale

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

— Eugenio Montale

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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. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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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

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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

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