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Eugenio Montale

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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


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Eppure resta che qualcosa è accaduto, forse un niente che è tutto.


— Eugenio Montale


#happened #love #love

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


— Eugenio Montale


#annihilate #attempted #especially #every #mass

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


— Eugenio Montale


#arts #background #civilization #contemporary #dark

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.


— Eugenio Montale


#advised #considered #dangerous #exercise #i

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


— Eugenio Montale


#becoming #democratic #evidently #more #sense

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


#edge #eyes #feet #flickering #happiness

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.


— Eugenio Montale


#born #consider #first #hammering #i

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


— Eugenio Montale


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


— Eugenio Montale


#centuries #comedy #creative #dante #did






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Widely considered the greatest Italian lyric poet since Giacomo Leopardi he was the last Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature until 9 October 1997.

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