Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes & Sayings
25 most famous Salvatore Quasimodo quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an Italian author who passed away on 14 June, 1968.
“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.”
“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 Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.”
“We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.”
“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.”
“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 poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.”
“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.”
“The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.”
“A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.”
“Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.”
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