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

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Source : Speech in New York, 13 May 1960, in New York Times 14 May 1960, p. 47

Salvatore Quasimodo

#Inspirational Quotes #Believe Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.”
“May your voice be loving enough to silence your own fears.”
“And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.”
“Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes â€” the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things â€” there is nothing to fall back on.”
“I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.”
“If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life but as a place of reverence and worship, where every tree, rock and waterhole had significance, you will get some understanding of the importance of land to indigenous people.”
“He answered, "The woman whom You gave to be with me" (Gen 3:9-12), he did not say, "the woman deceived me," but "The woman whom You gave to me," as if he wanted to say: "This catastrophe has come upon me because of You." So it is, brethren, since Man is not accustomed to blame himself. He does not hesitate to consider even God as the cause of evil.”
“There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.”

Source : Michael A. Nutter (2017). “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”, p.86, University of Pennsylvania Press

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