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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
"The vicious circle of life is employment."
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"
"We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity."
Explore more quotes by Eugenio Montale
"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."
"But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty."
"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."
"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."
"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
"There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power."
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