Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montalewas an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. He 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...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth12 October 1896
CountryItaly
art dark civilization
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
art hymns becoming
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
art men waiting
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
people owners certain
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
fashion hands law
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.
cutting language poetic
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
men worms produce
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.