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.
タグ: speak, men, mind, man

"Salvatore Quasimodo"の他の名言

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
タグ: who, difficult, new, look
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
タグ: poet, own, mouth, broken
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.
タグ: someone, true, never, words
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.
タグ: some, own, my-own, dictatorship
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
タグ: question, principles, moral, death
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