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Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes


The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

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 live in the real world.

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

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