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
bright bring central itself life light love nature plant points
Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.
cracks eyes ice knife thin walk
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are aflickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks
becomes fill invention paragraphs poetry rich space white
After the invention of printing, poetry becomes vertical, does not fill the white space completely, it is rich in new paragraphs and repetitions.
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?
holiday pity
Holidays - Have no pity.
writing exercise self
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.
book school doe
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
believe struggle two
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
art two musical
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
country squares crowds
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.
art narrative proust
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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.
creative height comedy
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.