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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

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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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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

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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.

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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

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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.

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

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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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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Author

Born: August 20th, 1901

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