Acceptance Quote by Salvatore Quasimodo

“Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra trafitto da un raggio di sole: ed e subito sera. (Everyone stands along on the heart of…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs…

— Salvatore Quasimodo