Eugenio Montale Quotes
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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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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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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.
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Holidays - Have no pity.
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In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
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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.