Salvatore Quasimodo
Author
1901-08-20
Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo
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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 think that they alone live in the real world.
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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 poet then becomes a danger.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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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 an image of a serene dialogue.
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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.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal [but] which the reader recognizes as his own.
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