How did Montale's poetry achieve its unique style?
My method, if one can call it that, is less about assertion and more about accumulation. I present images, often from nature or common objects – a rusty gate, a distant bell – and allow them to resonate, to suggest rather than declare. Language itself is a tricky instrument, often failing to grasp the true essence of things. Poetry, for me, is a necessary gesture, a fragile miracle, but the poet himself does not fully control its meaning. I try to approach the ungraspable through what I can see and touch, even if that vision is steeped in a profound skepticism about our ability to truly know.
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