Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.”

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

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

“At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.”

“Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.”

“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.”

“Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.”

“Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.”

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