Eugenio Montale Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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Too many lives are needed to make just one.
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Holidays - Have no pity.
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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.