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.
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. - Salvatore Quasimodo
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
- Salvatore Quasimodo
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultur… - Salvatore Quasimodo
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultur…
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 He… - Salvatore Quasimodo
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 He…
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. - Salvatore Quasimodo
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. - Salvatore Quasimodo
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. - Salvatore Quasimodo
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. - Salvatore Quasimodo
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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… - 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…
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. - Salvatore Quasimodo
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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