Quote by Eugenio Montale
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution o

The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical. – Eugenio Montale

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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. – 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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