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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all c

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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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. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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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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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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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasnt that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. Id already been translating French poetry, Id been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. – Paul Auster

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My chief aim is to make a poem. You make it for yourself firstly, and then if other people want to join in then there we are. – R.S. Thomas (1913–2000)

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. – Shelby Foote

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