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> [However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/however-poetry-does-not-live-solely-in-books-or-in-school-anthologies/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

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## More by Eugenio Montale

> [In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/in-reality-art-is-always-for-everyone-and-for-no-one/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/no-writer-in-our-time-has-been-more-isolated-than-kafka-and-yet-few/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/i-have-been-judged-to-be-a-pessimist-but-what-abyss-of-ignorance-and/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/forests-lakes-and-rivers-clouds-and-winds-stars-and-flowers/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/happiness-for-you-we-walk-on-a-knife-edge-to-the-eyes-you-are-a/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/strangely-dante-s-divine-comedy-did-not-produce-a-prose-of-that/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/i-have-always-knocked-at-the-door-of-that-wonderful-and-terrible/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [Holidays - Have no pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/holidays-have-no-pity/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/there-is-also-poetry-written-to-be-shouted-in-a-square-in-front-of-an/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/many-of-today-s-verses-are-prose-and-bad-prose/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/against-the-dark-background-of-this-contemporary-civilization-of-well/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/man-cannot-produce-a-single-work-without-the-assistance-of-the-slow/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/there-is-poetry-even-in-prose-in-all-the-great-prose-which-is-not/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/however-poetry-does-not-live-solely-in-books-or-in-school-anthologies/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

> [The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/the-real-history-the-one-that-counts-and-is-not-to-be-found-in-books/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

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