The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages...#Salvatore Quasimodo
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes,...#Salvatore Quasimodo
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.#Salvatore Quasimodo
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has...#Salvatore Quasimodo
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which...#Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and...#Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate...#Salvatore Quasimodo
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself...#Salvatore Quasimodo
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments...#Salvatore Quasimodo
