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1901, August 1901, August 20th 1901, Italy, Europe, …the EU,
Sicilia,
the world,
the Eurozone,
the Northern Hemisphere,
Southern Europe, Modica,
Ragusa,
Eurasia, Africa-Eurasia,
the G8,
US postal Group 5, the UK European postal area, the Central European Time region
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1968, June 1968, June 14th 1968, Italy, Europe, …the EU,
the world,
the Eurozone,
the Mediterranean sea,
Naples,
the Northern Hemisphere,
Campania,
Southern Europe,
Eurasia, Africa-Eurasia,
the G8,
US postal Group 5, the UK European postal area, the Central European Time region,
cerebral hemorrhage
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"We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude."; "War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost."; "The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."; "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."; "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."; …"The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures."; "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."; "Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."; "Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."; "My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems."; "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."; "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."; "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."; "Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."; "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."; "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."; "After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."; "According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze."; "A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."
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