At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
Salvatore QuasimodoPoetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore QuasimodoFrom the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore QuasimodoWe wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Salvatore Quasimodo