Work
His poems, written in the Grado dialect of Venetian, are about the daily life and simple landscapes of his native land. He used the "lingua franca" that the merchants of the city used for his writings. He was influenced by Hölderlin and Heine. Religious thematics occur somethimes in his work. Andrea Zanzotto and Pier Paolo Pasolini had some difficulties with the existence of religious thematics in Marins work In 1970 the poet decides to publish all the poems written at that time in one volume, which, significantly for his sentimental attachment to his land will be titled Songs from the Island.His output in the 70s gains him the attention of Italian audiences. He is now obligated to write in Italian, so that everybody in Italian can understand him. Despite this he only wrote one book in Italian called "Acquamarina" in 1973 In 1985 he said that publishers where reluctant to publish even a selection of his poetry.
Read more about this topic: Biagio Marin
Famous quotes containing the word work:
“Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence. They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. True work is the necessity of poor humanity’s earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“Gustav Aschenbach was the writer who spoke for all those who work on the brink of exhaustion, who labor and are heavy-laden, who are worn out already but still stand upright, all those moralists of achievement who are slight of stature and scanty of resources, but who yet, by some ecstasy of the will and by wise husbandry, manage at least for a time to force their work into a semblance of greatness.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)