Quotes of Eugenio Montale - somelinesforyou

“ No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did. ”

- Eugenio Montale

“ Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad ogni gradino. Anche così è stato breve il nostro lungo viaggio. Il mio dura tuttora, né più mi occorrono le coincidenze, le prenotazioni, le trappole, gli scorni di chi crede che la realtà sia quella che si vede. Ho sceso milioni di scale dandoti il braccio non già perché con quattr'occhi forse si vede di più. Con te le ho scese perché sapevo che di noi due le sole vere pupille, sebbene tanto offuscate, erano le tue. ”

- Eugenio Montale

“ E andando nel sole che abbaglia sentire con triste meraviglia com'è tutta la vita e il suo travaglio in questo seguitare una muraglia che ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia. ”

- Eugenio Montale

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

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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

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

- Eugenio Montale

“ The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. ”

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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

“ Holidays - Have no pity. ”

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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

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

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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

“ The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. ”

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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. ”

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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. ”

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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. ”

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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

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

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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

“ 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

“ The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. ”

- Eugenio Montale

“ 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

“ Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. ”

- Eugenio Montale
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