Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers — Eugenio Montale
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a — 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
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of — Eugenio Montale
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. — Eugenio Montale
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet — Eugenio Montale
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: — Eugenio Montale
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. — Eugenio Montale
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. — Eugenio Montale
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one — Eugenio Montale
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. — Eugenio Montale
Strangely, dante’s divine comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. — Eugenio Montale
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. — Eugenio Montale
Narrative art, the novel, from murasaki to proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. — Eugenio Montale
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success — Eugenio Montale
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not.. — Eugenio Montale
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. — Eugenio Montale
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. — Eugenio Montale
I am perhaps a late follower of zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built — Eugenio Montale