"Many of today's verses are prose and bad…" — Eugenio Montale
"Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."
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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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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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