We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Salvatore QuasimodoAn exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
Salvatore QuasimodoEuropeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
Salvatore QuasimodoThus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
Salvatore Quasimodo