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Men Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
- War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
- 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…
- 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 writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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