According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.Salvatore Quasimodo
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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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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