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Eugenio Montale Quotes: "Too many lives are needed to make just one."

Too many lives are needed to make just one.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.




Eugenio Montale Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.




Eugenio Montale Quotes: "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 Quotes: "Holidays - Have no pity."

Holidays - Have no pity.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life."

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.




Eugenio Montale Quotes: "The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world."

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty."

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for."

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "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?"

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 Quotes: "Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.




Eugenio Montale Quotes: "Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies."

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power."

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry."

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did."

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.



Eugenio Montale Quotes: "E andando nel sole che abbagliasentire con triste meravigliacom'è tutta la vita e il suo travaglioin questo seguitare una muragliache ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia."

E andando nel sole che abbagliasentire con triste meravigliacom'è tutta la vita e il suo travaglioin questo seguitare una muragliache ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia.