Eugenio Montale Quotes

• True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Poetry, Owner, People

• Too many lives are needed to make just one.

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  Tags in Lives, Needed

• 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.

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  Tags in Poetic, Production, Question

• 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.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Human, Poetry

• 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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  Tags in Poetry, Prose, Apparent

• There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

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  Tags in Poetry, Enthusiastic, Countries

• The poet does not know – often he will never know – whom he really writes for.

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  Tags in Poet, Write

• Strangely, Dante’s Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

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  Tags in Comedy, Strangely

• Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

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  Tags in Poetry, Visual, Musical

• Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Poetry, Comparison

• Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

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  Tags in Novel, Poetry

• Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

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  Tags in Radio, Television

• Many of today’s verses are prose and bad prose.

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  Tags in Prose

• Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Man

• 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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  Tags in Poetic, Prose, Language

• In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

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  Tags in Reality

• 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?

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Man, Pessimist, Question

• I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Wonderful, Enigma, Terrible

• I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Poetry, Self

• 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.

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Foundation

Eugenio Montale (27)

Birth:	12th October, 1896
Death:	12th September, 1981
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Editor, Poet, Translator, Writer

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