Quotes by Eugenio Montale

About Eugenio Montale:

Eugenio Montale is widely considered the greatest Italian lyric poet since Giacomo Leopardi. In 1973 he was awarded the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in Struga, Macedonia.
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No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

Eugenio Montale

E andando nel sole che abbaglia sentire con triste meraviglia com'è tutta la vita e il suo travaglio in questo seguitare una muraglia che ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia.

Eugenio Montale

Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

Eugenio Montale

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Eugenio Montale

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Eugenio Montale

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Eugenio Montale

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

Eugenio Montale

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

Eugenio Montale

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

Eugenio Montale

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

Eugenio Montale

Author Bio

  • NameEugenio Montale
  • DescriptionItalian poet
  • BornJanuary 12, 1896
  • DiedSeptember 12, 1981
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Journalist; Translator; Politician
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Grand Officer Of The Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic; Knight Grand Cross Of The Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic