Eugenio Montale Quotes

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

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Reality

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

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civilization, Contemporary

• 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.

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poets

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Production, World

• Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Arts, Democratic

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tribal, Music, Poetry

• 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.

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Walk, Knife, Edge

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

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Wonderful, Enigma, Terrible

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

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry, School

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

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry, Self

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetic, Prose, Language

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

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Man

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

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prose

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

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Radio, Television

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

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Novel, Poetry

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

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Comedy, Strangely

• 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

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Poetry, Comparison

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

  Eugenio Montale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet, Write

Eugenio Montale (27)

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

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