Eugenio Montale said this quote

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

~ Eugenio Montale

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

~ Eugenio Montale

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

~ Eugenio Montale