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Salvatore Quasimodo [1901-1968] Italian

Rank: 102
Author, Novelist

Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian novelist and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times".

Poetry, Death, Dreams, Fear, War

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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.	Death, Fear	101
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.	Dreams	102
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.	Death	103
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.	Poetry	104
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.		105
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.		106
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.		107
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.	Poetry	108
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.		109
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.		110
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.		111
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.		112
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.		113
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.		114
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.	Poetry	115
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.		116
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.		117
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.		118
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.		119
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.	Poetry	120
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.		121
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.		122
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.		123
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.	War	124
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.		125

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