“As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.Quote by Salvatore QuasimodoTopics: Quotes about Salvatore QuasimodoShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the...#Salvatore Quasimodo
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which...#Salvatore Quasimodo
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts...#Salvatore Quasimodo
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds...#Salvatore Quasimodo
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.#Salvatore Quasimodo
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses...#Salvatore Quasimodo
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their...#Salvatore Quasimodo
