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> [My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/my-readers-at-that-time-were-still-men-of-letters-but-there-had-to-be/)

[Salvatore Quasimodo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salvatore-quasimodo/)

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## More by Salvatore Quasimodo

> [“Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra trafitto da un raggio di sole: ed e subito sera. (Everyone stands along on the heart of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/ognuno-sta-solo-sul-cuor-della-terra-trafitto-da-un-raggio-di-sole-ed/)

[Salvatore Quasimodo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salvatore-quasimodo/)

> [In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/in-opposition-to-this-detachment-he-finds-an-image-of-man-which/)

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> [The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/the-poet-does-not-fear-death-not-because-he-believes-in-the-fantasy/)

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> [Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/poetry-is-also-the-physical-self-of-the-poet-and-it-is-impossible-to/)

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> [He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/he-passes-from-lyric-to-epic-poetry-in-order-to-speak-about-the-world/)

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> [An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/an-exact-poetic-duplication-of-a-man-is-for-the-poet-a-negation-of/)

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> [Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/poetry-is-the-revelation-of-a-feeling-that-the-poet-believes-to-be/)

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> [War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/war-i-have-always-said-forces-men-to-change-their-standards/)

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> [As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/as-the-poet-has-expected-the-alarms-now-are-sounded-for-and-it-must/)

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> [Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/thus-the-poet-s-word-is-beginning-to-strike-forcefully-upon-the/)

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> [From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/from-the-night-his-solitude-the-poet-finds-day-and-starts-a-diary/)

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> [Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/europeans-know-the-importance-of-the-resistance-it-has-been-the/)

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> [The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/the-resistance-is-a-moral-certainty-not-a-poetic-one-the-true-poet/)

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> [My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/my-readers-at-that-time-were-still-men-of-letters-but-there-had-to-be/)

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> [Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/even-a-polemic-has-some-justification-if-one-considers-that-my-own/)

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