Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

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

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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."

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"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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