The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. Salvatore Quasimodo belongcertaintycreative share on social
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. Salvatore Quasimodo antagonismcultureevident Change image and share on social
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. Salvatore Quasimodo impossiblephysicalpoet Change image and share on social
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. Salvatore Quasimodo agecontinuitydecorum share on social
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. Salvatore Quasimodo desireduplicationearth share on social
