44 Quotes by Eugenio Montale

E andando nel sole che abbagliasentire con triste meravigliacom'è tutta la vita e il suo travaglioin questo seguitare una muragliache ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia.

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

Eppure resta che qualcosa è accaduto, forse un niente che è tutto.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

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?

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.

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

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.