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Salvatore Quasimodo

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

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"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."
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"My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems."
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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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"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
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"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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"We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude."
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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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"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."
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"The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth."
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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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