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.

Poetry Inspiration

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Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

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For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

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Poetry Books Foolishness

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.

John F. Kennedy

Poetry Power Poems Arroganz

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

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Writing Poems Inspiration

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

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Writing Introvertierte Sprüche

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

David Levithan

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Words Love Writing

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

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Stories Writing

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

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Stories Writing

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Ernest Hemingway

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Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Driss in Intouchables

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

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Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

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Art Truth Politicians

Art is a way of survival.

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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

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Children & Childhood Art

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

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A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

Andy Warhol

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Art Photography Pictures

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

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Act on inspiration when it strikes.

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Success is one part inspiration, nine parts desperation.

Magic: The Gathering () - Crude Rampart

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Success Despair Inspiration

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Rod Serling

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Writing Ideas Inspiration

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

Writing Inspiration

Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Salvador Dalí

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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