Eugenio Montale
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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
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.
waiting
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
doors wonderful terrible
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
ignorance men thinking
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
creative height comedy
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
communication reflection solitude
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
lyric-poetry soul creation
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
aggravation speech firsts
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.