Quote by Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible

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

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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of mans expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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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. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself mans dreams, mans illness, mans redemption from the misery of poverty – poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry. – Terri Guillemets, “Inkdreaming,” 1994

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