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Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes

Salvatore Quasimodo quotes about men

Italian Author August 20, 1901 – June 14, 1968

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Salvatore Quasimodo quote: "My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there..."
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo quote: "War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards,..."
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Salvatore Quasimodo
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. 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. Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo quote: "The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates..."
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. Salvatore Quasimodo

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