Eugenio Montale Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Eugenio Montale quotes and sayings page 2 (poet). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 27 we have.
“There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.”
“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.”
“Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.”
“I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.”
“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.”
“Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.”
“Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.”
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