Too many lives are needed to make just one.

- Eugenio Montale

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

- Eugenio Montale

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

- Eugenio Montale

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 …

- Eugenio Montale

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

- 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

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

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

- Eugenio Montale

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, bu…

- Eugenio Montale