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Eugenio Montale

"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."

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Donna Grant

"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."

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Donna Grant

"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

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Donna Grant

"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

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Donna Grant

"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."

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Donna Grant

"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"

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Donna Grant

"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."

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Donna Grant

"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."

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Donna Grant

"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."

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Donna Grant

"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."

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Donna Grant

"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."

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

Poetry

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Eugenio Montale
"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."

Poetry

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Eugenio Montale
"However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies."

Poetry

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Eugenio Montale
"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."

Civilization

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Eugenio Montale
"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."

Art

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Eugenio Montale
"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?"

God

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Eugenio Montale
"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."

Poetry

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Eugenio Montale
"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."

Sense

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Eugenio Montale
"The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for."

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Eugenio Montale
"Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."

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