Great Throughts Treasury

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Eugenio Montale

I often think of the beautiful Turin, where sweet must feel to live.

Athletics | Love | Poetry |

Euripedes NULL

Who knows that 'tis not life which we call death, and death our life on earth?

Death | Life | Life | Men |

Eustace Budgell

In short, a private education seems the most natural method for the forming of a virtuous man; a public education for making a man of business. The first would furnish out a good subject for PlatoÂ’s republic, the latter a member for a community overrun with artifice and corruption.

Education | Means | Men | Nothing | Order | Reason | Service | Temper | Think |

Eugenio Montale

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

Poetry |

Eugenio Montale

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.

Men | Position | Power | Victim |

Euripedes NULL

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

Despair | Men |

Eugenio Montale

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.

Poetry |

Eugenio Montale

From the Tower falls the sound of bronze: the show goes on between drums argue that the glory of the districts.

Necessity | Poetry | Sound |

Eugenio Montale

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

Invention | Poetry | Space |

Eugenio Montale

Back to event the sun and the widespread voices, not the usual noises door.

Culture | Men | Friends |

Euripedes NULL

Come, God -- Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus -- burst into life, burst into being, be a mighty bull, a hundred-headed snake, a fire-breathing lion. Burst into smiling life, oh Bacchus!

Men | Rule |

Euripedes NULL

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Hope | Men |

Euripedes NULL

Go home to your wife. Go bury her.

Hope | Men |

Eugenio Montale

I do not know how exhausted you resist | in this lake indifference LORD thy heart; maybe you save an amulet that you keep close your lipstick, to down, to file: a white rat,d 'ivory, and so exist!

Poetry | Search |

Euripedes NULL

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

Enough | Men |

Euripedes NULL

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Men |

Eugenio Montale

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.

Poetry |

Eugenio Montale

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.

Poetry | Will |

Euripedes NULL

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

Heart | Men | Mind | Wise | Think |