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Top 30 Eugenio Montale Quotes (2025 Update)

Eugenio Montale Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Eugenio Montale Quote: “Holidays – Have no pity.”

2. “Holidays – Have no pity.”

— Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale Quote: “Strangely, Dante’s Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.”

3. “Strangely, Dante’s Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale Quote: “I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.”

5. “I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.”

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

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.”

8. “Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.”

9. “The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “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?”

10. “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?”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale Quote: “Occorrono troppe vite per farne una.”

12. “Occorrono troppe vite per farne una.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.”

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

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.”

15. “True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.”

17. “I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “No medical student relishes the idea of having to learn a subject over and over again.”

18. “No medical student relishes the idea of having to learn a subject over and over again.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.”

19. “The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.”

— Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale Quote: “Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.”

20. “Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.”

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

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.”

22. “It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “Too many lives are needed to make just one.”

24. “Too many lives are needed to make just one.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Eugenio Montale Quote: “The poet does not know – often he will never know – whom he really writes for.”

26. “The poet does not know – often he will never know – whom he really writes for.”

— Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale Quote: “Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.”

27. “Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “Many of today’s verses are prose and bad prose.”

28. “Many of today’s verses are prose and bad prose.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.”

29. “However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.”

30. “Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.”

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Eugenio Montale Quote: “In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.”

31. “In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.”

— Eugenio Montale

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