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Eugenio Montale

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Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europ...
JONATHAN GALASSI Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of th...
EUGENIO MONTALE The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual respon...
EUGENIO MONTALE Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihi...
EUGENIO MONTALE Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so af...
EUGENIO MONTALE There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: t...
EUGENIO MONTALE Holidays - Have no pity
EUGENIO MONTALE The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet e...
EUGENIO MONTALE I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
EUGENIO MONTALE Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thi...
EUGENIO MONTALE I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one...
EUGENIO MONTALE True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated peo...
EUGENIO MONTALE Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to m...
EUGENIO MONTALE For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of addin...
EUGENIO MONTALE Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
EUGENIO MONTALE Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale
e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad og...
EUGENIO MONTALE Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word...
EUGENIO MONTALE This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the...
EUGENIO MONTALE “Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a
flickering light, to the fee...
EUGENIO MONTALE Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life i...
EUGENIO MONTALE Io sono abituato a cibarmi
di nuvole e lontananza.
EUGENIO MONTALE There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occur...
EUGENIO MONTALE Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new w...
EUGENIO MONTALE Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. B...
EUGENIO MONTALE The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
EUGENIO MONTALE However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
EUGENIO MONTALE Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil a...
EUGENIO MONTALE I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
EUGENIO MONTALE But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, ...
EUGENIO MONTALE It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be conside...
EUGENIO MONTALE I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon th...
EUGENIO MONTALE In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
EUGENIO MONTALE I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew ...
DONALD DUNN Offensively, we just didn't execute at the level that we needed to. There were too many bad snaps an...
MIKE AYERS Too many men are absent at the crucial time when they are needed.
ANTHONY ROBERTS Many people said that it was too crowded with the 400 players here. But to me, I just concentrated o...
BO WILLIAMS I think one of the problems in this country is that too many people are screwing things up, committi...
GEORGE CARLIN The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make thei...
SHERMAN ALEXIE One of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make the...
GERARD BUTLER He's one of the best pitchers in the game. Every time he's out there, he doesn't make too many mista...
JASON LARUE He's one of the best pitchers in the game, ... Every time he's out there, he doesn't make too many m...
JASON LANE I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that wo...
BILL FLORES Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.
NATASHA LEGGERO To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors ...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my...
JAMIE MOYER Right now there are just too many cross currents out there to make people feel confident enough and ...
ANDREW BARRETT Make your trips count too, don't do too many short trips try to combined the trips into one longer t...
KEN DAVIS To make changes you have to make some enemies, but you also have to be careful not too make too many...
STEVEN PINKER There are so many movies people make just to make money.
RANDY WAYNE They haven't had too many close games lately. We're just hoping to make it a ballgame.
KAREN HOEM Politics: Poly.
MANY Just to keep it simple, not make too many mistakes. Play my game and not get too nervous. It's a big...
CARSEN GERMYN Some people are listening to us. But one life lost is one too many.
COLLEN MSIBI There are so many software tools available today we needed a new site just to showcase them all.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY My goal is to make sure (children's) books address a whole range of emotions, ... There are too many...
HARRIET ZIEFERT Too many journalists have lost their lives just because they were doing their jobs, and unresponsive...
ANN COOPER I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives e...
ALEXANDER DUBCEK In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they n...
CHARLES DUHIGG There are too many baseball games in a season to dwell on one loss. We have to just have a short mem...
CHRIS SCHUSTER They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invin...
N.H. KLEINBAUM There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.
RICHARD SMYTH It's just too important. We are talking about lives here, ... I'm not going to walk away from it. Pe...
JIM CAVANAUGH We are just pressing a little too much on offense. We're dropping too many passes, we're not hitting...
DALE PATTON What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. Ther...
DR. JAMES DOBSON There are too many mediocre things to deal with.Love shouldn't be one of them.
UNKNOWN This can only make us a better football team. This was just what we needed to get us in line. With a...
ED STANLEY Most kids of the rich are accursed,for the free funds available to them have made them to live lives...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There are too many retailers. There are too many brands. There are too many designers. There are too...
MICKEY DREXLER The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We wo...
DALE E. TURNER One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
JAMES THURBER If two lives join, there is oft a scar, / They are one and one, with a shadowy third; / One near one...
ROBERT BROWNING We?re very sloppy with the ball. We just make way too many turnovers, and they come back to haunt us...
ANDY KYLE There's just too many people out there who are going without food.
LEE MERCER We didn't make all the goals that we set. ... Katie just scored too many points in the end.
DALE POFFENROTH Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.
PAUL WEYRICH They were just more physical. There weren't too many secrets there. We would make a move, and they w...
FRANK MUCHA We are beating ourselves. We're giving them too much, giving them too many opportunities. We need to...
MARGO JONKER No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Maybe the final four a few years ago (2002 against Stanford). Just too many weapons. Nebraska was to...
DAVE SHOJI I think we were trying too hard. We just needed to settle things down.
DAVE HALL People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fence...
GWYNETH PALTROW Jim and I talked before the game (Monday) about this. It just doesn't make sense. Too many good team...
JIM BOEHEIM We use the road as a highway. How many fatalities are we going to wait for? One is already too many.
JOE LONGO Terms are like shredded wheat - two are wonderful, but three might just be too many.
DAVID CAMERON It's great to score early. You can never score too early and I think we needed that away from home b...
GLENN ROEDER Yes it was. We needed it. We need one (today), too.
BRAD GOODMAN Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON We had our opportunities (Tuesday). We just didn't make our shots when we had to and we missed too m...
DOUG BLEADORN It's too early to make a call. There are still too many votes out there that have not been tabulated...
GUILLERMO LUZ Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.
DANIEL WILLEY There are just not that many things you do that so dramatically change peoples' lives. They recoup t...
LYNN SULLIVAN There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
FELIX DENNIS Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu instead of enjoying the banquet.
UNKNOWN Even one toy-related death is too many, because these deaths are preventable.
ALISON CASSADY It was real tense. We just needed someone to make a play.
AHMAD BROOKS Voters are ready right now for my message. They just needed someone who can make a clear stand.
DENNIS KUCINICH There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre...
DAN LEVITAN Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing im...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Too many people seemed to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are too many agencies to report to, too many returns that have to be filed.
BRUCE GOLDING

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EUGENIO MONTALE Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihi...
EUGENIO MONTALE Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so af...
EUGENIO MONTALE There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: t...
EUGENIO MONTALE Holidays - Have no pity
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EUGENIO MONTALE I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
EUGENIO MONTALE Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thi...
EUGENIO MONTALE I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one...
EUGENIO MONTALE True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated peo...
EUGENIO MONTALE Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to m...
EUGENIO MONTALE For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of addin...
EUGENIO MONTALE Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
EUGENIO MONTALE Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale
e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad og...
EUGENIO MONTALE Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word...
EUGENIO MONTALE This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the...
EUGENIO MONTALE “Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a
flickering light, to the fee...
EUGENIO MONTALE Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life i...
EUGENIO MONTALE Io sono abituato a cibarmi
di nuvole e lontananza.
EUGENIO MONTALE There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occur...
EUGENIO MONTALE Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new w...
EUGENIO MONTALE Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. B...
EUGENIO MONTALE The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
EUGENIO MONTALE However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
EUGENIO MONTALE Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil a...
EUGENIO MONTALE I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
EUGENIO MONTALE But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, ...
EUGENIO MONTALE It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be conside...
EUGENIO MONTALE I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon th...
EUGENIO MONTALE In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
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EUGENIO ALEMAN There are lots of indicators that show that the economy has accelerated considerably in the first qu...
EUGENIO ALEMAN Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended i...
EUGENIO ALEMAN Once the market realizes there is no real threat of an immediate conflict, the market will calm down...
EUGENIO ALEMAN Wages are 70 percent of the cost of production. That puts pressure on the cost structure of business...
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