Top 40 Quasimodo's Quotes

#1. The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #96165
#2. I would think I'd accomplished it all if I could get to play Quasimodo.

Elias Koteas

Quasimodo's Quotes #160398
#3. It's hard to look in charge when you're hunched over like Quasimodo.

Rick Riordan

Quasimodo's Quotes #160843
#4. But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

Victor Hugo

Quasimodo's Quotes #208837
#5. The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome - this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

Victor Hugo

Quasimodo's Quotes #237153
#6. Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #238396
#7. My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #386142
#8. 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

Quasimodo's Quotes #497055
#9. From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #670676
#10. 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.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #694870
#11. To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. Why was I not made of stone like thee?

Victor Hugo

Quasimodo's Quotes #697604
#12. In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #795326
#13. This is what people were looking at all day? How embarrassing! I looked like Quasimodo! My guests were exceptional actors.

Cameo Renae

Quasimodo's Quotes #859514
#14. 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

Quasimodo's Quotes #874754
#15. Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
trafitto da un raggio di sole:
ed e subito sera
Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world,
pierced by a ray of sunlight,
and suddenly it's evening

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #917949
#16. Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #920296
#17. In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old.

Victor Hugo

Quasimodo's Quotes #934642
#18. Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #998395
#19. Oh! Everything I loved!

Victor Hugo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1012618
#20. After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1028220
#21. Why was I not made of stone like thee?
Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire].

Victor Hugo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1031381
#22. The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1075924
#23. I'm nothing but envious that you've been happily married for two years. Try hauling your cookies on a new blind date every Friday, only to have your, already extremely low, expectations dashed as you meet men who look like Quasimodo and have Homer Simpson's IQ.

Jane Green

Quasimodo's Quotes #1076902
#24. People are bound to recognize the name Quasimodo." "Why is that?" "Because he rings a bell.

J.A. Konrath

Quasimodo's Quotes #1130310
#25. The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1265564
#26. 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.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1299990
#27. A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1320860
#28. 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

Quasimodo's Quotes #1354910
#29. Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1397834
#30. 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.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1413837
#31. My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

Victor Hugo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1443284
#32. Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1634392
#33. 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

Quasimodo's Quotes #1641330
#34. So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger.

Victor Hugo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1649036
#35. I loved to say quasi. I was saying it now a lot, instead of sort of, or kind of, and it had become a tic. "I am quasi ready to go," I would announce. Or, "I'm feeling a bit quasi today." Murph called me Quasimodo. Or Kami-quasi. Or wild and quasi girl.

Lorrie Moore

Quasimodo's Quotes #1713952
#36. We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1726635
#37. The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1749183
#38. 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

Quasimodo's Quotes #1749836
#39. No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1773474
#40. According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's Quotes #1866375

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