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Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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Salvatore Quasimodo
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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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.
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Salvatore Quasimodo
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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Salvatore Quasimodo
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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Salvatore Quasimodo
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
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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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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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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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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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