“The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think.” ThinkingMenWorldFeelsLooksDoeMadeStillsEnoughRunningPastMovingBornConditionsNew WorldRunning AwayContemplatingTolerate Author:Eugenio Montale
“Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.” WellsArtLosesDarkIdentityCivilizationBackgroundsContemporaryWell Being Author:Eugenio Montale
“Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.” MenWorldArtUsedWaitingConsciousnessObjectsArt IsProductionsNew WorldConsumptionDiscarded Author:Eugenio Montale
“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
“However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.” DoeBookSchoolAnthology Author:Eugenio Montale
“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.” BelieveTwoLife IsEvilForceI BelieveStruggleLateBuiltFoundationGood And EvilFollowersOpposing Author:Eugenio Montale
“I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.” WonderfulDoorsTerribleEnigma Author:Eugenio Montale
“Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.” ArtNovelNarrativeGreat WorkProustNarrative Art Author: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.” ArtPiecesReadyPaperPoetry IsPencils Author:Eugenio Montale