Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodowas an Italian author 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". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 August 1901
CountryItaly
Salvatore Quasimodo quotes about
character men stories
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
according poet
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
enemy impersonal today voice
The enemy of the Resistance, for all his shouting, is today only a shadow, without much strength. His voice is more impersonal than his proposals.
religious principles moral
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
tradition poet internationalism
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
self redemption impossible
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
dream acceptance men
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.
movement firsts poetic
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.
solitude bitterness pardon
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
real heart men
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.
inspirational believe poetry
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.
shining resistance example
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
men epic order
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.
culture politician poet
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.