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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 We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of c...
GEOFF DYER The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally...
MATTHEW PEARL 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 I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
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 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 There's practically not one aspect of the arts that's not included in this program. Narrative, poetr...
JOHN BRADLEY To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodime...
JOSEPH BRODSKY Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, ...
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature...
KHALED HOSSEINI Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
ISHMAEL REED Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
ROBERT QUILLEN England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.
GEORGE A. MOORE The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) i...
CARLOS FUENTES Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the audit...
STEVEN PINKER Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it differe...
LESLIE FIEDLER Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found r...
MARCEL PROUST Poetry looking in the mirror sees art,
and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
ABERJHANI Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader....
EDWARD ST AUBYN I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso paintin...
JESSI KLEIN What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, befo...
HENRIK IBSEN The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged...
ALAIN ROBBE GRILLET How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people ...
ILAN STAVANS By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it,...
ROGER KIMBALL The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuali...
MARCEL PROUST 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a ...
EDMUND WHITE Since 1960s pop art the art world has been happy for artists to use the lowbrow to add zest and auth...
GRAYSON PERRY I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always b...
DIANE WAKOSKI Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two s...
JOSEPH BRODSKY The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We've now produced a new theoretical model of how this process works.
ALBERT ZIJLSTRA Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Over the past half century, as American poetry's specialist audience has steadily expanded, its gene...
DANA GIOIA Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during...
PAMELA SARGENT Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing
EDMUND BURKE he aspired to produce something simultaneously less vulgar and less formless than the novels of the ...
JANE SMILEY My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
WILLIAM SAROYAN Life is like a canvas of great works of art, for every painting illustrates a special phase of life ...
MARCO OSCAR OZ The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
FRANK DANE The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
FRANK DANE The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art...
CORNELL CAPA Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
NHAT HANH Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
THICH NHAT HANH To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be whe...
MARGARET ATWOOD 'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art...
NATHAN SAWAYA It's one of the classic works of this period. The novel itself stands up on its own, and as a result...
DANNY GLOVER Art works to satisfy the instinct and the Science works to satisfy the reason.
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
MARIANNE MOORE When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the spe...
BILLY JOEL The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flaw...
GAVIN HOOD A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impres...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach...
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach...
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY We can instantly map the usage of the word 'raven' across the United States, in works of narrative p...
EREZ AIDEN No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation
WALTER BAGEHOT Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the pass...
EDMUND BURKE My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
WALEAD BESHTY A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
KATHERINE PATERSON Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he p...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

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EUGENIO MONTALE Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale
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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.
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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.
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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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