Eugenio Montale , Italian poet

said about Negative, Exercise, Liberty, Poets, Self...

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"But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty."
- Eugenio Montale

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