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Salvatore Quasimodo Poet

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Italy
  • Born: Aug 20, 1901
  • Died: Jun 14, 1968

Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian author and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. poetry

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. poetry

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