"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."
-Eugenio Montale
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"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.“
-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."
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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."
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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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"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."
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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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