Eugenio Montale's Profile
Brief about Eugenio Montale: By info that we know Eugenio Montale was born at 1970-01-01. And also Eugenio Montale is Italian Poet.
Eugenio Montale Biography
- Eugenio Montale (October 12, 1896 - September 1981) was a known as the greatest Italian Lyric poet since Giacomo Leopardi. He is a prose writer, editor and translator, and a recepient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Genoa, Italy and was the youngest of six children. His family were chemical products traders with his Father who furnished Italo Svevo's firm and older brothers working in the office.
- According to the poet's niece, Bianca Montale, the family's common characteristics are "fragile, shy, concision in speaking, pessimistic and dry humor," she illustrated this in her work in 1986 "Cronaca Famigliare." At age 19, he left his worked as an accountant to follow his passion in arts. He frequently went to the city's libraries, attend sister Marianna's private philosophy lessons and studied opera singing with the baritone Ernesto Sivori, making him a self-taught man.
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 more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
Tags: Great, Poetry, WriteToday not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
Tags: Fire, Time, TodayI 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?
Tags: Future, God, IgnoranceAgainst the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
Tags: Against, Dark, LoseStrangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
Tags: After, Comedy, CreativeFor 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.
Tags: Born, Music, PoetryMass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
Tags: Communication, Solitude, SuccessEvidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
Tags: Sense, Word, WorstI have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
Tags: Door, Life, WonderfulIt has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Tags: Cut, Language, OftenMan cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
Tags: Single, Thought, WorkNarrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
Tags: Art, Great, PoetryPoetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Tags: Art, Everyone, PoetrySlowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
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