35 Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

Dammi il mio giorno;ch'io mi cerchi ancoraun volto d'anni sopitoche un cavo d'acqueriporti in trasparenza,e ch'io pianga amore di me stesso.Ti cammino sul cuore,ed è un trovarsi d'astriin arcipelaghi insonni,notte, fraterni a mefossile emerso da uno stanco flutto;un incurvarsi d'orbite segretedove siamo fitticoi macigni e l'erbe.

Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terratrafitto da un raggio di sole: ed e subito sera.(Everyone stands along on the heart of the earth transfixed by a sun ray: and suddenly it is evening.)

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.

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

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.

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

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

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.

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