Quotes by Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale

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

Art

Civilization

Dark

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.

Art

Men

Waiting

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.

Exercise

Self

Writing

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

Art

Becoming

Hymns

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.

Aggravation

Sound

Speech

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.

Eye

Light

Love You

Holidays – Have no pity.

Holiday

Pity

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

Book

Doe

School

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.

Believe

Struggle

Two

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

Waiting

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Believe

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Certain

Character

Civilization

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Connections

Country

Creation

Creative

Crowds

Cutting

Dark

Differences

Doe

Doors

Exercise

Eye

Fashion

Fire

Hands

Height

Holiday

Hymns

Ignorance

Just One

Language

Light

Love You

Lyric Poetry

Men

Moving

Musical

Narrative

Needed

Owners

Paper

Past

People

Pieces

Pity

Poet

Poetic

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Proust

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Quotes by Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Holidays – Have no pity.

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

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.

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

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