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 MontaleEvidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
Eugenio MontaleI have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
Eugenio MontaleI 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