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Salvatore Quasimodo

"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."

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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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"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 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."
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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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"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."
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"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."
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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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"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."
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"The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."
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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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