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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."

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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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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

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"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."

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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

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"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"

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"Death is a fearful thing."

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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

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"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

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"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."

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"NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither."

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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."
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"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
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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 writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."
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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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"Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."
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