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

The sacredness of solitude is spiritualty — Lailah Gifty Akita

Acting is fun; it's easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That's ultimately what I'd like to do. — Hannibal Buress

This is unbearable how I talk. — Mandy Patinkin

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

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

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

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

I can do nothing for you but work on myself ... you can do nothing for me but work on yourself! — Ram Dass

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

Holidays - Have no pity. — Eugenio Montale

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. — Eugenio Montale

God is beautiful and He loves beauty. — Nazr Mohammed

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

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

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

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand. — Saint Ambrose

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

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

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

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere. — Anna Held

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

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

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

He left me millions of time, but I am holding him with every breath with same madness — Seema Gupta

He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in anyway original. — Nicole Krauss

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. — Ambrose Bierce

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation. — Ernest Holmes

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter

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

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

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

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

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