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
self redemption impossible
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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.
tradition poet internationalism
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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.
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.
culture politician poet
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
spiritual earth poetic
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
distance looks pages
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.
order creative use
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.
mean men mind
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.