What is Quasimodo's central idea on poetry?
Poetry, for me, is not mere adornment or escapism. It is revelation, a force capable of illuminating the deepest currents of existence. I believe 'il poeta è un uomo che parla agli uomini' (the poet is a man who speaks to men), not in the grand pronouncements of rhetoric, but through the precise, often unearthed word. My aim is to find the essential, the immutable reality beneath the shifting surface of things. The tension between individual solitude and the shared burden of humanity, so central to my 'Acque e terre' (Waters and Lands) and 'Oboe sommerso' (Sunken Oboe), is best captured not by elaborate discourse, but by the piercing clarity of a single, resonant image.
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