Thus, 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 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 QuasimodoWar, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
Salvatore QuasimodoMy readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo