Eugenio Montale Quotes

• However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

  Eugenio Montale

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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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• For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

  Eugenio Montale

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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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• 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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• Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Production, World

• Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

  Eugenio Montale

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Eugenio Montale (27)

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

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