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Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes

Salvatore Quasimodo quotes

Italian Author August 20, 1901 – June 14, 1968

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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. Salvatore Quasimodo
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. 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
Salvatore Quasimodo quote: "According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with..."
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. Salvatore Quasimodo
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. Salvatore Quasimodo
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 Hermetic movement. Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo quote: "Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been..."
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. Salvatore Quasimodo
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 us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo quote: "The antagonism between the poet and the politician has..."
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo quote: "A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. Salvatore Quasimodo

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