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.
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
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 do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. - Eugenio Montale
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. - Eugenio Montale
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
Too many lives are needed to make just one. - Eugenio Montale
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. - Eugenio Montale
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
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
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 …
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one. - Eugenio Montale
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
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
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…
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. - Eugenio Montale
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
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