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Poet Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo
- As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.…
- The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
- 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 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…
- The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
- 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 but which the reader recognizes as his own.
- 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.
More Poet Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden