Quotes by Eugenio Montale

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.