“The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.” DoneFeelingsLife IsIndividualDifferencesResponsibilityDangerousSolitudeMassIntellectualAspectInternalsAlienationPresent DayDissolutionDay LifeIndividual Responsibility Book:Poet in our time Source: Poet in our time
“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.” WritingSelfLibertyDangerousPoetExerciseAdvantageNegativeCensorshipSelf Censorship Author:Eugenio Montale