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His Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
- 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.
- 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…
- Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
- According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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