"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted,……" — Eugenio Montale
"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."
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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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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Stimulate don't Annihilate.
— Lee Haney
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army…
— Alfred Nobel
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What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be…
— Maria Montessori
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But…
— Kenneth Roberts
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Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were…
— Tom Hanks
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If you aren’t hearing your inner voice, it could mean you’re overburdened or not stimulated enough, or that you’ve learned…
— Kelly Cutrone
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral…
— Frederick Douglass
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