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

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

Salvatore Quasimodo

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