Quotes of Salvatore Quasimodo - somelinesforyou

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- 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

“ Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ 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 then becomes a danger. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- 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

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ 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. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

“ 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. ”

- Salvatore Quasimodo
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