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Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian
Author
Born:
Aug 20
,
1901
Died:
Jun 14
,
1968
Been
His
Man
Men
Own
Poet
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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
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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