Eugenio Montale Quotes
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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
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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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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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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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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.