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Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Page 2 of 2Salvatore Quasimodo
August 20, 1901 - 1968
Nationality: Italian
Category: Author
Subcategory: Italian Author
|  My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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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