Quotes by : Salvatore Quasimodo

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved....

No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that....

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

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly....

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has....