"According to them, the poet is confined to……" — Salvatore Quasimodo
"According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze."
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Salvatore Quasimodo
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26 Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo
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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the…
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters…
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and…
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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's…
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover…
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world…
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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