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Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian Poet
Born: Oct 12, 1896
Died: Sep 12, 1981
Art Arts Great Man Poetry Will
Related authors: Antonio Porchia Cesare Pavese Dante Alighieri Persius Petrarch Pietro Aretino Torquato Tasso
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. Eugenio Montale
Work Man Thought Slow Single Worm Corrosive Without Cannot Produce Assistance
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. Eugenio Montale
Success Communication Solitude Reflection Every Television Possibility Attempted Annihilate Mass Without Radio
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. Eugenio Montale
Me Wait Visit Poetry Go Search
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. Eugenio Montale
Today Bad Prose Verses Many
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. Eugenio Montale
Will Poet Writes Never He Know Does Often Really Whom
Too many lives are needed to make just one. Eugenio Montale
Too Make Just Just One Many Lives Needed
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
Dangerous Liberty Negative Took Considered Poets Write Self-Censorship Advantage Most Advised Exercise Were
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. Eugenio Montale
Life Good Struggle Good And Evil Evil Follower Opposing Believe Late Between Perhaps Forces Built Am Foundation Two
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. Eugenio Montale
Life Wonderful Knocked Terrible Always Door Which Enigma
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. Eugenio Montale
Creative Comedy Dante Divine Prose Did After Centuries Height Produce Strangely
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. Eugenio Montale
Power Enthusiastic Crowd Poetry Written Countries Also Occurs Square Authoritarian Front Where Regimes
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
Great Soul Will Lyric Poetry Remain Outstanding Most Always Proves Die Human Again Creations Human Soul Reborn
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. Eugenio Montale
People Few Unknown Similar Only Poetry True Pictures Know Owner Which Certain Initiated Whose

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