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Top 20 Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes (2025 Update)

Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.”

1. “Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.”

3. “A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.”

5. “The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.”

7. “Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “The poet’s spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”

8. “The poet’s spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.”

10. “War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.”

11. “We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.”

17. “The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.”

18. “After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.”

23. “Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.”

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Salvatore Quasimodo Quote: “My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.”

24. “My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.”

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