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Quote by Eugenio Montale
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance a

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? – Eugenio Montale

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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry
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Eugenio Montale
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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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Happiness
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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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Poetry
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Eugenio Montale
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Future
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One faces the future with ones past. – Pearl S. Buck

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Future

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. – Brian Eno

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Future

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. – Jim Bishop

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Future

Im not good at future planning. I dont plan at all. I dont know what Im doing tomorrow. I dont have a day planner and I dont have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. – Heath Ledger

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Future

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In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people. – Cherrie Moraga

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communication