A-Z Blogging Challenge "Q"

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As a very young girl I lived with my paternal grandmother for three formative years. Being an enthusiastic teacher and lover of words,
she invariably had quotations written all over the house... literally. On the backs of cupboard doors, on calendars, napkins or wherever she happened to be.  With this in mind I am finding the authors, in alphabetical sequence, of many of her favorite quotations and am adding some of those that are special to my family as well.  Hope you enjoy!






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Salvatore Quasimodo : August 20, 1901 – June 14, 1968) was an Italian author and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his lyrical poetry," which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti  and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.

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

(This one is for all the poets in Bloggerville!! How true it is!)

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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35 – c. 100) was a Roman rhetorician   from Hispania widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian.


(Now this is going waaaay back in time. However, it still rings true today!)

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.