#poetry

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

— Robert Morgan

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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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