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Salvatore Quasimodo Facts
Salvatore Quasimodo Is Born On August 20, 1901
Salvatore Quasimodo Is Born In Modica, Italy
Salvatore Quasimodo Nationality Is Italian
Salvatore Quasimodo Zodiac Sign Is Leo
Salvatore Quasimodo Zodiac Symbol Is Lion
Salvatore Quasimodo Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Metal
Salvatore Quasimodo Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Ox
Salvatore Quasimodo Occupation Is Author
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself mans dreams, mans illness, mans redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of mans expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
The enemy of the Resistance, for all his shouting, is today only a shadow, without much strength. His voice is more impersonal than his proposals. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
The poets other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
The poets spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Thus, the poets word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
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