Mass communication, radio, and especially televisi... -Eugenio Montale

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Eugenio Montale , Poet
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Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet and critic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his distinctive poetic voice and his mastery of lyrical expression. His work has had a profound impact on Italian literature, making him a celebrated figure in the world of poetry.

Eugenio Montale Quotes to Explore

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know....
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul....
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regi...
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one....
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry....
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies....
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 f...
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready....
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in...
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me....

Communication Quotes to Explore

Communication is what sets us human beings apart from other beings in this world....
Growing up in a Singaporean Chinese family, for me food is almost the primary means of communication between family members, both immediate and extend...
All communication on today's networks are being monitored by government agencies and private companies....
Open communication is the biggest turn-on....
Communication is huge and a lot of it is knowing what to say, and it takes time....
I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication....
When it comes to personal communication, words are all we've got. It is the simple use of language that makes us human beings....
People find communication in families difficult - games can help with that....
That's always the biggest thing, especially in the secondary, is building not just communication and everything but friendships and bonds of off-the-f...
Part of playmaking is communication, when you have nobody on the field talking, particularly when you are under pressure, it becomes twice as hard....