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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."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Conceit is God's gift to little men."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."

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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
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

Poetry

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Salvatore Quasimodo
"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."

Poetry

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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."

Poetry

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Salvatore Quasimodo
"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."

Life

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Salvatore Quasimodo
"Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."

Conscience

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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
"My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems."

Man

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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
"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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