Renzo Dante was born in Livorno, Italy, in 1906. He died in Rome, at the age of eighty-seven, on the 22 April 1996. His main interest and life work were the field of "new" poetry and his belief that man cannot live without poetry: he believed that poetry is a kind of "mirror" which reveals to man his own image. Dante was an experimentalist and self-taught; his work has never been influenced by any school or doctrine
His works are as much as possible autonomous units, free from any literary tradition. Dante's poetic activity represents a constant attempt to give form to truth and life; he attempted to find a new form for poetry, a form which would make it more accessible to all people; this has been his main concern throughout his long career as a poet and essayist.
Time is the skin of existence.Renzo Dante (Saligiare)
What we seek is never what we seek. That is why we may not recognize that we've found what we truly yearn for.Renzo Dante (Saligiare)
Ambition strives. At first for goals, until it reaches them. Then for more, because it's insatiable.Renzo Dante (Saligiare)
Ambition's ambition is immortality. To create an eternal legacy.Renzo Dante (Saligiare)
