Eugenio Montale — Italian Poet born on October 12, 1896, died on September 12, 1981

Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is widely considered the greatest Italian lyric poet since Giacomo Leopardi. In 1973 he was awarded the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in Struga, Macedonia... (wikipedia)

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
Too many lives are needed to make just one.