Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
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He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.
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War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
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We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
