"I have always knocked at the door of……" — Eugenio Montale
"I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life."
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31 Quotes by Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
- Holidays - Have no pity.
- Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
- In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
- Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly…
- True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
- I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
- For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of…
- It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut…
- Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
- Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet,…
- The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done…