Quote by Salvatore Quasimodo
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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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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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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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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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings – about human feelings and frailties. – Anne Stevenson

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Poetry is composing for the breath. – Peter Davison

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I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poets language at that point in history, and so its even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert Frost

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