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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.


Eugenio Montale

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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 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 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.
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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.
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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.
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...
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