Great Throughts Treasury

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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 |

Eustace Budgell

Those who have searched into human nature observe that nothing so much shows the nobleness of the soul, as that its felicity consists in action. Every man has such an active principle in him that he will find out something to employ himself upon, in whatever place or state of life he is posted.

Conversation | Discretion | Giving | Good | Love | Man | Nothing | Sense |

Euripedes NULL

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

Justice | Law | Sorrow | Vengeance | Will |

Euripedes NULL

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

Love |

Euripedes NULL

Glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Love |

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

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

Love | Method |

Eugenio Montale

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.

Life | Life | Love |

Euripedes NULL

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Love |

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

I sacrifice to no god save myself — And to my belly, greatest of deities.

Love | Old |

Euripedes NULL

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

Love |

Euripedes NULL

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

Day |

Eugenio Maria de Hostos (y Bonilla)

If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you. When you cannot be just because of your nature, be so through your pride.

Feelings | Freedom | Future | Intelligence | Love | Men | Order | Problems | Will |

Euripedes NULL

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.