Eugenio Montale

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#kafka #silence #communication

Eppure resta che qualcosa è accaduto, forse un niente che è tutto. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#happened #love #love

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#annihilate #attempted #especially #every #mass

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#arts #background #civilization #contemporary #dark

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. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#advised #considered #dangerous #exercise #i

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#becoming #democratic #evidently #more #sense

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. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#edge #eyes #feet #flickering #happiness

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

#born #consider #first #hammering #i

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

— Eugenio Montale

#books #does #however #live #poetry

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#centuries #comedy #creative #dante #did