"An exact poetic duplication of a man is……" — Salvatore Quasimodo
"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 is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things."
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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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