Eugenio Montale's most famous lines (with the poem)
The top 3 according to 26 votes from people: Listen to me: the laureate poets / move only among plants / with rarely used names. · Often I have encountered the evil of living: / it was the strangled stream that gurgles, / the curling of the parched leaf, / the fallen horse. · This alone we can tell you today: / what we are not, what we do not want.. (Updated Jun 20, 2024.)
"Often I have encountered the evil of living", "This alone we can tell you today: what we are not, what we do not want" and "I have gone down, giving you my arm, at least a million stairs": the lines by Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale everyone remembers, from Cuttlefish Bones to Satura, with the poem each comes from.
Automatically translated (original in Italiano). See the original
Top 12
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Listen to me: the laureate poets / move only among plants / with rarely used names.
"I limoni", Cuttlefish Bones (1925).
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Often I have encountered the evil of living: / it was the strangled stream that gurgles, / the curling of the parched leaf, / the fallen horse.
"Spesso il male di vivere ho incontrato", Cuttlefish Bones (1925).
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This alone we can tell you today: / what we are not, what we do not want.
"Non chiederci la parola", Cuttlefish Bones (1925).
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The connections, the bookings, / the traps, the scorn of those who believe / that reality is what one sees.
"I have gone down, giving you my arm", Satura (1971).
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Perhaps one morning, walking in air of glass, / dry, I will turn and see the miracle happen: / nothingness at my back, the void behind me.
"Forse un mattino andando", Cuttlefish Bones (1925).
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Genius leaves a few tiny pawprints / like a hare on the snow.
"Genius", Satura (1971).
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I am here because I have written poems, an utterly useless product, but almost never a harmful one.
Nobel Prize speech (1975).
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I have gone down, giving you my arm, at least a million stairs / and now that you are not here there is emptiness at every step.
"I have gone down, giving you my arm", Satura (1971).
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Happiness attained, for you / we walk on a knife's edge.
"Felicità raggiunta", Cuttlefish Bones (1925).
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The truest reason belongs to the one who keeps silent.
"So l'ora", Cuttlefish Bones (1925).
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Something unforeseen / is the only hope.
"Before the Journey", Satura (1971).
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It takes too many lives to make one.
"Summer", The Occasions (1939).
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