Haul your paper ships up the scorched shore
and then sleep, little-boy captain –
may you never hear the evil spirits
sailing now in flocks.
Eugenio Montale
EUGENIO MONTALE (d. 1981) was an Italian poet renowned as a renovator of modern Italian poetry. He also translated and worked as a critic for the Corriere della Sera. He received the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature, which crowned numerous other awards.
