"The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is……" — Eugenio Montale
"The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical."
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Eugenio Montale
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31 Quotes by Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale has 31 quotes on this site.
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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.
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More Alienation Quotes
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
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We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes…
— Alex Campbell
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Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society…
— Jean Baker Miller
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the…
— Colin Gunton
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed…
— J. William Fulbright
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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel…
— Boyd Rice
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We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled…
— Thomas Berry
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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story…
— Thomas Berry
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To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life.…
— James Taylor
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