Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

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Salvatore Quasimodo is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.
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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

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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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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

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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.

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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

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Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra trafitto da un raggio di sole: ed e subito sera. (Everyone stands along on the heart of the earth transfixed by a sun ray: and suddenly it is evening.)

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The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

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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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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.

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Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

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Author Bio

  • NameSalvatore Quasimodo
  • DescriptionItalian writer
  • BornAugust 20, 1901
  • DiedJune 14, 1968
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionPoet; Linguist; Writer; Translator
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature