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Eugenio Montale

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

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Eugenio Montale

Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

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Eugenio Montale

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

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

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

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

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

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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

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I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

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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.

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

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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.

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