All Eugenio Montale Quotes
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
Eugenio Montale
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This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
Eugenio Montale
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Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
Eugenio Montale
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But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
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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.
Eugenio Montale
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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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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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The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
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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 am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
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