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