The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
Salvatore QuasimodoMy readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore QuasimodoWe wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Salvatore QuasimodoReligious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
Salvatore Quasimodo