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


Eugenio Montale

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Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europ...
JONATHAN GALASSI I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by...
UMBERTO ECO But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made ter...
UMBERTO ECO Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.
NORA ROBERTS I have wonderful ideas. And terrible ideas. And terribly wonderful ideas.
TIFFANY REISZ Lo, life again knocked laughing at the door! The world goes on, goes ever, in and through, And out a...
ROBERT BROWNING Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered and no one was there.
UNKNOWN I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.
CHELSEA CLINTON I knocked down the producers door,
JESSICA SIMPSON Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I knew the door I wanted. I knocked.
V.S. NAIPAUL And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.
BIBLE I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and ...
JOSE CARRERAS Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of th...
EUGENIO MONTALE Too many lives are needed to make just one.
EUGENIO MONTALE The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual respon...
EUGENIO MONTALE Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihi...
EUGENIO MONTALE Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so af...
EUGENIO MONTALE There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: t...
EUGENIO MONTALE Holidays - Have no pity
EUGENIO MONTALE The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet e...
EUGENIO MONTALE Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thi...
EUGENIO MONTALE I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one...
EUGENIO MONTALE True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated peo...
EUGENIO MONTALE Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to m...
EUGENIO MONTALE For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of addin...
EUGENIO MONTALE Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
EUGENIO MONTALE Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale
e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad og...
EUGENIO MONTALE Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word...
EUGENIO MONTALE This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the...
EUGENIO MONTALE “Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a
flickering light, to the fee...
EUGENIO MONTALE Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life i...
EUGENIO MONTALE Io sono abituato a cibarmi
di nuvole e lontananza.
EUGENIO MONTALE There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occur...
EUGENIO MONTALE Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new w...
EUGENIO MONTALE Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. B...
EUGENIO MONTALE The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
EUGENIO MONTALE However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
EUGENIO MONTALE Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil a...
EUGENIO MONTALE I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
EUGENIO MONTALE But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, ...
EUGENIO MONTALE It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be conside...
EUGENIO MONTALE I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon th...
EUGENIO MONTALE In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
EUGENIO MONTALE Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
SEX AND THE CITY The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams sh...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have...
KELLY CLARKSON Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, ...
PHIL MCGRAW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Life is an Amazing, Hard, Wonderful and Terrible Thing and we never come out of it alive .. so live ...
FEMALE IMAGINATION It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ...
JON MEACHAM When it comes to my life I have always been an optimist. My door is always open, and My pants are al...
MARIE KATRA If he had drawn his gun at the time he knocked on the door, I would have given him the keys to the c...
CARMEL FORRESTER I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
MARK TWAIN Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not scientifically but poetically.
RONALD FRAME As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to ...
LESLEY GORE I crawled over the mountain of death, Watching the corpses roll down like the stones. Searching for ...
AKSHAY VASU But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world ...
LIAN HEARN When Bayazid was asked how old he was, he replied, ‘Four years.’ They said, ‘How can that be?�...
ALDOUS HUXLEY 10-12 years ago, when Ryan was at Strong Memorial Hospital and someone knocked on our door to let us...
GREGG CHALMERS I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
HENRY MILLER When they first went in the front door, they found one just inside, as soon as they went in that doo...
MYRON WILLIAMS Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
DANIEL DEFOE Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.
JOYCE CAROL OATES Love is a wonderful, terrible thing
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is so complete that even when knocked on our backs, we have the best view of the stars.
LAURA TERESA MARQUEZ Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it'...
GARETH GATES What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thi...
FRAN TARKENTON Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost inst...
SALLY MANN The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
JOHN MAEDA We've knocked at every door in Israel and abroad, but it's not an issue that arouses attention. It's...
ZEEV FACTOR I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be ...
ADMIRAL (LORD) LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN He had gone to a house and knocked on the door and they reported it.
BOB MERRILL Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which i...
IRIS APFEL I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In th...
ANNE RICE I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the wa...
LENI RIEFENSTAHL You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at...
TA-NEHISI COATES I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
KATE MULGREW Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease a...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not re...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will n...
NANA MOUSKOURI You have wonderful artists like Patty Labelle and Aretha Franklin that have opened up the door and b...
KELLY ROWLAND You have wonderful artists like Patty Labelle and Aretha Franklin that have opened up the door and b...
KELLY ROWLAND When we knocked on her door and said, 'You're going,' she said, 'I'm ready.
DONNA CAPONI I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.
DEBORAH NORVILLE People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrib...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid ...
DAN BROWN A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and di...
JOHN GREEN Life is wonderful beautiful journey. Every episode of my life is like a dream, and I am at peace and...
LAURA HARRING Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little le...
LISA SHEARIN I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the wa...
LENI RIEFENSTAHL Photography is the presentation of mystery and enigma that has been hidden between light and darknes...
ZIHNI OZGUR BALIKOGLU I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, ...
JOHN GREEN Matt and I are really good friends. And, he always races me clean and I always race him clean. I cou...
JEFF BURTON Old age is a wonderful time of life. At least, that's what everyone tells you. But let me tell y...
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EUGENIO MONTALE Io sono abituato a cibarmi
di nuvole e lontananza.
EUGENIO MONTALE There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occur...
EUGENIO MONTALE Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new w...
EUGENIO MONTALE Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. B...
EUGENIO MONTALE The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
EUGENIO MONTALE However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
EUGENIO MONTALE Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil a...
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EUGENIO MONTALE It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be conside...
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