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Eugenio Montale quotes: No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

Eugenio Montale quotes: Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Eugenio Montale quotes: True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Eugenio Montale quotes: This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Eugenio Montale quotes: Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Eugenio Montale quotes: Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Eugenio Montale quotes: It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

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

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

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

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

Eugenio Montale quotes: In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

Eugenio Montale quotes: I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

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

Eugenio Montale quotes: Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

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 quotes: Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

Eugenio Montale quotes: Holidays - Have no pity.

Holidays - Have no pity.

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

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

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

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

Eugenio Montale quotes: Your speech so halting and unguardedis the only thing leftwith which to content myself.But the accent is changed, the colour is different.

Your speech so halting and unguarded
is the only thing left
with which to content myself.
But the accent is changed, the colour is different.

Eugenio Montale quotes: Absent one, how I miss you on this shorethat conjures you and fades if you're away

Absent one, how I miss you on this shore
that conjures you and fades if you're away

Eugenio Montale quotes: The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

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

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

Eugenio Montale quotes: Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Eugenio Montale quotes: Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.