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

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Always Art Everyone Reality

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

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Topics: Assistance Cannot Corrosive Man Produce Single Slow Thought Without Work Worm

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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

Topics: Again Always Creations Die Great Human Human Soul Lyric Most Outstanding Poetry Proves Reborn Remain Soul Will

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Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

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Topics: Against Arts Background Civilization Contemporary Dark Even Identity Lose Mingle Tend Well-Being

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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.

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Art Consciousness Consumption Discarded Even Everything Freeing Himself His Man New New World Objects Own Production Succeeded Used Waiting Which While Will World

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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.

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Advantage Advised Considered Dangerous Exercise Liberty Most Negative Poets Self-Censorship Took Were Write

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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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Topics: Arts Becoming Democratic Evidently More Sense Visual Visual Arts Word Worst

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Adding Born Consider First Maintain Music Necessity Object Part Poetry Sound Speech Tribal Vocal

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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.

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Cracks Edge Eyes Feet Flickering Happiness Ice Knife Light Loves May Thin Touch Walk Who You

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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Books Does However Live Poetry School Solely

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Poet

Born: October 12th, 1896

Died: September 12th, 1981

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