The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
Salvatore QuasimodoAt 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 also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
Salvatore QuasimodoEuropeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
Salvatore Quasimodo