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Famous Quotes
Quotes by 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.
- 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.
- Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
- Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
- Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
- 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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