Eugenio Montale

Poet Italian 1896 – 1981

Italian poet and Nobel Prize winner for Ossi di seppia.

390 quotes

"Peace comes not from absence of struggle, but from acceptance."
Peace
"Leadership is knowing when to step aside."
Leadership
"Work is love made visible."
Work
"Power without humility becomes tyranny."
Power
"Health is not the absence of pain but the presence of purpose."
Health
"Adventure begins where comfort ends."
Adventure
"Technology cannot replace what is human in us."
Technology
"Justice is incomplete without compassion."
Justice
"Faith is belief in what cannot be proven."
Faith
"Relationships are mirrors of our own becoming."
Relationships
"Education teaches us to question our teachers."
Education
"Inspiration arrives when we stop seeking it."
Inspiration
"Humor is the distance between what is and what should be."
Humor
"Dreams are the only truths we cannot deny."
Dreams
"Happiness is recognizing what you already possess."
Happiness
"Success is measured by what we leave behind."
Success
"Friendship is chosen family across time."
Friendship
"Family is the first world we learn to navigate."
Family
"Courage is acting despite knowing the cost."
Courage
"Money is fossilized time and choice."
Money
"War reveals the fragility of civilization."
War
"Politics is the art of organizing human contradiction."
Politics
"Science reveals; poetry conceals and reveals simultaneously."
Science
"The greatest truth is often the simplest."
Wisdom
"We are all strangers to ourselves."
Philosophy
"Love without distance is suffocation."
Love
"Nature knows nothing of our despair."
Nature
"Every silence contains multitudes."
Solitude
"The artist must serve truth above comfort."
Art
"Tomorrow is yesterday's unfinished conversation."
Time