We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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 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 QuasimodoAfter the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
Salvatore Quasimodo