6 Quotes & Sayings By Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale, born in 1878, was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. He is known as a second generation member of the nouveau roman movement and as a poet who aligned himself with the surrealists. Montale's work is also associated with minimalism and has been described as "an anti-poem".

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E andando nel sole che abbagliasentire con triste meravigliacom'è tutta la vita e il suo travaglioin questo seguitare una muragliache ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia. Eugenio Montale
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No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did. Eugenio Montale
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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
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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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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