My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore QuasimodoAs the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
Salvatore QuasimodoWar, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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