After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
Salvatore QuasimodoThe antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
Salvatore QuasimodoReligious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
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 Quasimodo