Eugenio Montale Quotes

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

I read mostly poetry.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

I'm really into poetry.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

I love playing with words and texture.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

The cliche is dead poetry.