Eugenio Montale

Montale, Eugenio Filmography

• Play in Full Screen La tigre e la neve

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen And You're So Special?

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen La fatica di leggere

  1970, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Eugenio Montale:

"“Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a"

"Too many lives are needed to make just one."

"Holidays - Have no pity"

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

"The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present."

"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."

"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"

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

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

"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."

"The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for."

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

"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."

"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."