As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultur…

- Salvatore Quasimodo

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

- Salvatore Quasimodo

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

- Salvatore Quasimodo

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

- Salvatore Quasimodo

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the He…

- Salvatore Quasimodo

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image…

- Salvatore Quasimodo

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

- Salvatore Quasimodo