The best Quotes by Eugenio Montale

The best Quotes by Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale (12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
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?
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.