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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
His
Internationalism
Own
Poet
Tradition
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
According
Broken
Confined
His
Mouth
Own
Poet
Provinces
Them
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
After
Death
Even
Moral
Moral Principles
Principles
Question
Religious
Turbulence
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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.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
About
Being
Desire
Earth
Even
Exact
Greatest
Harmonious
His
Impossibility
Man
Many
Means
Men
Mind
Negation
Poet
Poetic
Speak
Them
Things
Though
Truths
Unite
Verses
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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 cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Again
Alarm
Always
Attempts
Because
Birth
Break
Center
Circle
Cultural
Existing
Expected
He
Literary
Must
Now
Order
Poet
Reach
Said
Threat
Through
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Age
Been
Continuity
Decorum
Easy
Explosion
First
Formal
Interrupted
Linked
Nuclear
Poetic
Point
Preoccupation
Recover
Sounds
Too
Us
Which
Would
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Been
Conscience
Europeans
Example
Has-Been
Importance
Know
Modern
Resistance
Shining
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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.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Began
Considers
Dictatorship
Even
Experiments
First
Justification
Mark
Movement
My Own
Origin
Own
Poetic
Polemic
Some
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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.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Dark
Day
Dialogue
Diary
Finds
His
Landscape
Lethal
Night
Poet
Solitude
Starts
Yields
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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.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
About
Becomes
Danger
Emotionally
Epic
Epic Poetry
He
Lyric
Man
Order
Passes
Poet
Poetry
Rationally
Speak
Then
Through
Torment
World
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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.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Acceptance
Contains
Detachment
Dreams
Finds
He
Him
Illness
Image
Itself
Life
Longer
Man
Misery
Opposition
Poverty
Redemption
Sign
Which
Within
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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.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Had
Letters
Men
Other
People
Poems
Read
Readers
Still
Time
Waiting
Were
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Also
His
Impossible
Physical
Poet
Poetry
Self
Separate
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Believes
Feeling
His
Interior
Own
Personal
Poet
Poetry
Reader
Revelation
Which
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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.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Categories
Civic
Content
Dramatic
Endorsement
Expression
Formal
Lyric
Man
Only
Poetry
Religious
Valid
Which
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Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Always
Been
Bitter
Even
Frequently
Itself
Neutral
Political
Political Power
Power
Protagonist
Religious
Said
Seemingly
Struggle
Which
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Antagonism
Been
Between
Cultures
Evident
Generally
Poet
Politician
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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.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Because
Believes
Constantly
Death
Dialogue
Does
Fantasy
Fear
He
Heroes
His
Image
Poet
Serene
Thoughts
Thus
Visits
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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.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Ancient
Approach
Create
Difficult
Distance
Forms
Look
New
New Forms
Other
Pages
Permanent
Poet
Poetic
Poets
Readers
Them
Which
Who
Written
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The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Depends
Discourse
Earth
Enslaved
Finds
Freedom
Itself
Mystique
Often
Poet
Spiritual
Spoken
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Salvatore Quasimodo
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BirthDate
20 August, 1901
DeathDate
14 June, 1968
Country
Italy
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