"However, poetry does not live solely in books……" — Eugenio Montale
"However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies."
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31 Quotes by 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.
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Holidays - Have no pity.
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
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In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
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Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly…
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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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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of…
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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut…
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Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet,…
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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done…
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More Anthologies Quotes
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one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the…
— Lynn Abbey
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I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying…
— Judith Guest
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial…
— Gary Saul Morson
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Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy…
— Gary Saul Morson
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Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to…
— William Ernest Henley
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I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're…
— Neil Strauss
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Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that…
— Jeff VanderMeer
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As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
— Elizabeth Janeway
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Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches,…
— James Wolcott
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Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel…
— Pat Conroy
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I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.
— Karen Russell
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