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Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian Author
Born: Aug 20, 1901
Died: Jun 14, 1968
Been His Man Men Own Poet
Related authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn C. S. Lewis Frederick Douglass George Orwell Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Zig Ziglar
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
Interior Poet Feeling Own Poetry Reader Revelation His Personal Which Believes
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
Man Valid Lyric Dramatic Religious Civic Only Poetry Categories Content Endorsement Formal Which Expression
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. Salvatore Quasimodo
Men Imitates Possibilities Characters Writer He His Stories Them Novels
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
Circle Poet Birth Must Threat Through Attempts He Reach Because Said Always Cultural Existing Expected Order Literary Break Center Again Now Alarm
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
Dictatorship First Own Mark Considers Some My Own Poetic Polemic Began Movement Experiments Justification Origin Even
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. Salvatore Quasimodo
Time Waiting People Men Other Poems Had Read Readers Still Were Letters
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 First Too Would Easy Sediment Poetic Recover Point Sounds Been Continuity Linked Formal Which Us Decorum Explosion Preoccupation Nuclear Interrupted
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
Day Solitude Dark Poet Starts Finds Dialogue His Diary Yields Landscape Lethal Night
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. Salvatore Quasimodo
Poet Own Tradition His Internationalism
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
Life Dreams Man Acceptance Poverty Sign Detachment Finds Misery He Contains Longer Him Redemption Within Opposition Itself Which Illness Image
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
Struggle Political Political Power Power Bitter Religious Seemingly Neutral Protagonist Frequently Said Always Been Itself Which Even
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. Salvatore Quasimodo
Creative Words Poet Judgment Punish Moral Someone Poetic Prophetic Never True True Poet His Order Scripture Certainty Uses Resistance Belongs
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. Salvatore Quasimodo
Example Has-Been Importance Know Been Shining Modern Europeans Conscience Resistance

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