A Quote by Eugenio Montale
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
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The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind
Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed
As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins
Nor stand there making orotund consolations.
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