Ancient Poets Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

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Salvatore Quasimodo has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of…
• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that…
• We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
• Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the…
• 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…
• Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
• A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
• After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
• At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal…
• Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
• He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man,…
• The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

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