Eugenio Montale

(17 votes)   After the invention of printing, poetry becomes vertical, does not fill the white space completely, it is rich in new paragraphs and repetitions.

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(262 votes)   The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Eugenio Montale
1896-1981, Italian Poet

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(98 votes)   The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present.

Eugenio Montale
1896-1981, Italian Poet

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(20 votes)   Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

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(20 votes)   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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(20 votes)   I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

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(19 votes)   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.

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(19 votes)   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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(17 votes)   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.

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(17 votes)   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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(17 votes)   Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

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(16 votes)   However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

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(15 votes)   Too many lives are needed to make just one.

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(14 votes)   I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

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(14 votes)   Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

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