More - Eugenio Montale Quotes

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. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present.

Eugenio Montale

 Life Twentieth Century

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.

Eugenio Montale

 Alienation

Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light

Eugenio Montale

 Nature

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

Eugenio Montale

 Italian Poet Men

Holidays - Have no pity

Eugenio Montale

 

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Eugenio Montale

 Italian Poet

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks

Eugenio Montale

 

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Eugenio Montale

 Italian Poet

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

Eugenio Montale

 Italian Poet