After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
Salvatore QuasimodoThe poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
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 QuasimodoMy readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo