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