Quote by Eugenio Montale
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced gr

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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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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Alienation
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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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Future
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Poetry
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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. – Asghar Farhadi

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Poetry

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of mans expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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Poetry

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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Poetry

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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Poetry

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The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, its strong enough to unplug me from the comedians mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry. – Seth Meyers

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Anger

I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think thats a normal thing to do, but its so much harder when its done publicly. – Courteney Cox

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relationship

It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out – Michel de Montaigne

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Duality

Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over. – Author Unknown