All 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… Alarm
- 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 live… Absolute
- We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. Bitter
- 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… Began
- 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 of… Acceptance
- Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. From
- A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. Avoids
- After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. Called
- 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… Age
- Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. Been
- 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.… Becomes
- The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. All
- My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. Letters
- War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Always Said
- 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… Already Said
- Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is… All
- 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… Desire
- 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… Belongs
- The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and… Ancient
- The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. Depends