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- A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — W. H. Auden
- There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Edmund Burke
- Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. — Eugenio Montale
- Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. — Eugenio Montale
- Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. — Eugenio Montale