List of Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes

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.

My Readers At That Time Were Still Men Of Letters; But There Had To Be Other People Waiting To Read My Poems.

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.

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.

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.

We Wrote Verses That Condemned Us, With No Hope Of Pardon, To The Most Bitter Solitude.

Poetry Is Also The Physical Self Of The Poet, And It Is Impossible To Separate The Poet From His Poetry.

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.

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.

An Exact Poetic Duplication Of A Man Is For The Poet A Negation Of The Earth, An Impossibility Of Being, Even Though His Greatest Desire Is To Speak To Many Men, To Unite With Them By Means Of Harmonious Verses About The Truths Of The Mind Or Of Things.

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.

A Poet Clings To His Own Tradition And Avoids Internationalism.