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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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

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Donna Grant

"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."

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Donna Grant

"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."

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Donna Grant

"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

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Donna Grant

"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."

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Donna Grant

"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

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Donna Grant

"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."

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Donna Grant

"There are very few great poets in the world."

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Donna Grant

"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."

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Donna Grant

"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."

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Salvatore Quasimodo
"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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Salvatore Quasimodo
"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."

Man

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Salvatore Quasimodo
"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."

Death

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Salvatore Quasimodo
"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."

Man

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Salvatore Quasimodo
"We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude."

Hope

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Salvatore Quasimodo
"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."

Death

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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."

Writing

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

Earth

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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."

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

Man

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