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Eugenio Montale quotes

Italian Poet October 12, 1896 – September 12, 1981

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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. Eugenio Montale
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil. Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale quote: "I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and..."
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale quote: "I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. Eugenio Montale
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale quote: "Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it..."
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. Eugenio Montale
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion. Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale quote: "Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has..."
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. 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 Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? Eugenio Montale
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness. Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale quote: "No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and..."
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did. Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale quote: "Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the..."
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. Eugenio Montale
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. Eugenio Montale
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. Eugenio Montale
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. Eugenio Montale

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