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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 25 quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo Salvatore Quasimodo (Italian: [salvaˈtoːre kwaˈziːmodo]; August 20, 1901 – June 14, 1968) was an Italian author and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century. Read full biography of Salvatore Quasimodo → 1 2 Ctrl → Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. 0 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. 0 We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. 0 A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. 0 Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. 0 War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. 0 In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption... → 0 At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked... → 0 Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the... → 0 Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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