Cutting Quote by Eugenio Montale

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

— Eugenio Montale

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

— 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…

— Eugenio Montale

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks;…

— Eugenio Montale

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

— Eugenio Montale

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

— Eugenio Montale

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

— Eugenio Montale

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

— 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

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

— Eugenio Montale