I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. Eugenio Montale More Quotes by Eugenio Montale More Quotes From Eugenio Montale Too many lives are needed to make just one. Eugenio Montale just-oneneededcharacter In reality art is always for everyone and for no one. Eugenio Montale art-isrealityart 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. Eugenio Montale runningpastmoving Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. Eugenio Montale versesprosetoday 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 differencessolituderesponsibility I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? Eugenio Montale ignorancementhinking Holidays - Have no pity. Eugenio Montale pityholiday 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 lighteyelove-you However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. Eugenio Montale doebookschool Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. Eugenio Montale hymnsbecomingart The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world. Eugenio Montale realsimplebook 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 piecespaperart Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion. Eugenio Montale fashionfirehands 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. Eugenio Montale struggletwobelieve I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. Eugenio Montale waiting Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. Eugenio Montale workmenthinking 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 poeticcuttinglanguage 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. Eugenio Montale waitingmenart Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. Eugenio Montale darkcivilizationart True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. Eugenio Montale ownerscertainpeople
