Quote by Eugenio Montale
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a

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. – Eugenio Montale

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. – Eugenio Montale

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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. – Eugenio Montale

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. – Henry St. John

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy

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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. – Colette

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We must do something is the unanimous refrain. You begin is the deadening refrain. – Walter Dwight

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