Eugenio Montale

"I have no program. I only know that I was born poor, and I wish to die rich."

"The butterfly's dream"

"Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great metamorphosis and still love flowers."

"I believe that life is a journey towards light."

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."

"The dark does not frighten me, but the light that comes after does."

"Art is the only true currency of the soul."

"Words are imprecise instruments, but they are all we have."

"Time is the only true teacher."

"Nature speaks in silences that we have forgotten how to hear."

"Truth hides in the spaces between words."

"Love is the only revolution worth fighting for."

"To understand music is to understand life itself."

"The gift of solitude is that it teaches us who we truly are."

"Happiness is found in the smallest of moments."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to continue."

"Beauty exists in imperfection and decay."

"Knowledge without wisdom is like a sword in the hands of a madman."

"Death is not the opposite of life, but its completion."

"Patience is the virtue of those who understand time."

"Freedom is found not in the absence of constraints, but in their transcendence."

"The work of art must contain its own explanation."

"History is written by those who understand its cyclical nature."

"Philosophy begins where certainty ends."

"Peace is the hardest battle to win."

"Education is the liberation of the human spirit."

"Creativity flows from the depths of our solitude."

"Justice is more often spoken of than practiced."

"Strength comes from accepting our limitations."

"Power without responsibility is tyranny."