Eugenio Montale
Poet
1896-10-12 – 1981-09-12
Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, critic, and editor and one of the major literary voices of the twentieth century. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975. His poetry is noted for dense imagery, modernist form, and philosophical depth.
Quotes by Eugenio Montale
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E andando nel sole che abbagliasentire con triste meravigliacom'è tutta la vita e il suo travaglioin questo seguitare una muragliache ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia.
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E andando nel sole che abbagliasentire con triste meravigliacom'è tutta la vita e il suo travaglioin questo seguitare una muragliache ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia.
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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
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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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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
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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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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
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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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Holidays Have no pity
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