Great Throughts Treasury

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Eugenio Montale

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

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Capacity | Extreme | Fault | Philosophy | Work | Fault | Think |

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Euripedes NULL

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

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Brutality |

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Euripedes NULL

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

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Euripedes NULL

No one is happy all his life long.

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Will |

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Eugenio Montale

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

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Beginning | Desire | Life | Life | Meaning | Myth | Question |

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Eugenio Montale

Poets is useless to ask for the understanding of certain things

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Art | Art |

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Euripedes NULL

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

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Abuse | Age | Death | Lying | Old age | Old |

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Euripedes NULL

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

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Justice | Law | Sorrow | Vengeance | Will |

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Euripedes NULL

Let them that are happy talk of piety; he that would work his adversary woe must take no account of laws.

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Glory | Life | Life | Think | Understand |

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Euripedes NULL

When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

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Generosity | God | Need | God |

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Euripedes NULL

No one who goes against her can win.

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People |

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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.

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Poetry | Will |

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Evan Esar

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

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