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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

Topics: Am Believe Between Built Evil Follower Forces Foundation Good Good And Evil Late Life Opposing Perhaps Struggle Two I Am I Believe I Believe That

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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Go Me Poetry Search Visit Wait

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I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

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Topics: Always Door Enigma Knocked Life Terrible Which Wonderful

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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Abyss Been Egoism Future God Hidden Himself His Ignorance Judged Low Man Only Pessimist Thinks Triumphant Who

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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

Topics: Been Considered Cut Decisive Language Observed Often Poetic Prose Whip

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Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

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Topics: Bad Many Prose Today Verses

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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Attempted Communication Every Mass Possibility Radio Reflection Solitude Success Television Without

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

~Eugenio Montale

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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

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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

~Eugenio Montale

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Poet

Born: October 12th, 1896

Died: September 12th, 1981

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