Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

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Poet and translator · Italian · 1901–1968

Italian poet and translator (1901–1968)

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“We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.”

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

“The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”

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

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“No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!”

— Salvatore Quasimodo

cruelty life-experience

“The 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 Quasimodo

Fear Thoughts Fantasy

“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

Feeling Interior Personal

“The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Spiritual Earth Discourse

“We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.”

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Solitude Bitter Us

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

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Change Men Lost