Great Throughts Treasury

"Often the pain of living I met: was strangled gurgling brook, was the leaf incartocciarsi parched, was the horse weir."

"Scotellaro could leave us a hundred poems that remain some of the most significant of our time ... in him the dough between the vein and the vein that I would say international folk have found happiness unusual accent."

"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."

"Poets is useless to ask for the understanding of certain things"

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

"The genius unfortunately does not speak | with his lips. | The genius leaves some traces of paw | like the hare in the snow."

"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."

"The idea of a poem European music and colorful had been in Bell , as well as instinct, a matter of culture, but some had been accompanied or preceded, in him, a practice some more 'inert and passive of the new isms found in air. Even futurism official had demanded, as the innovators of the century, to break the windows, to renew the air. Bell, however, had chosen the finest masters of those followed by his provisional initiators. Repudiated by instinct the more mechanical, more elencativa of liberalism fashion, and went, one can safely say this also in fact, to the most reliable sources of that movement, from Whitman toRimbaud . He reported on his own, in art and life, a matter of style in a matter of consciousness and was aware of representing, in his time and in its environment, a new voice, different."

"The man cultivates his unhappiness for the sake of fighting it in small doses. Always be unhappy, but not too much, is a sine qua non of small and intermittent happiness."

"The inspiration often seems like a tarantula bite him, shake him from sleep atavistic and in those moments it is impossible to write better than him, with far more cunning, with the most perfect taste."

"The man of today has inherited a nervous system that cannot stand the current living conditions. Waiting to form the man of tomorrow, today's man reacts to the changed conditions by not objecting to shock but doing mass massificandosi."

"The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present."

"The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical."

"The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver."

"The man of the future will be born equipped with a brain and a nervous system quite different from those we have we, human yet traditional, Copernican, classics."

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

"Thick white cloud of moths crazy swirls around the dull lights and on the parapets lays down a blanket on which scricchia like sugar on the footÂ… and the water continues to gnaw the banks and more no one is innocent."

"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."

"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."

"Today 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."

"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."

"Under the blue sky the thick of some sea bird leaves, nor ever stop: because all the pictures bring written beyond."

"Too many lives are needed to make just one."

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

"We are with anyone who chooses the weapon of non-violence : it's called in distant land, Andrei Sakharov, or closer to home, Marco Pannella."

"You do not remember the house of the customs officers from the upward overhanging the cliff: desolate awaits you from the night when entered it the swarm of your thoughts restless and stopped there."

"Where the power denies, in blatant forms but also with occult means, true freedom, popping up every so inspired men like Andrei Sakharov and Marco Pannellawho follow the spiritual position more difficult to assume that a victim in front of his oppressor: the refusal passive . Alone and unarmed, they also speak to us."

"When the sex was mysterious had a certain charm that no longer has. Our ancestors loved women who wore six pairs of pants and aroused passions that do not elicit more today."