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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the trut... (more Salvatore Quasimodo quotes)
| The selected writings of Salvatore Quasimodo by Salvatore Quasimodo | |
| Biography - Quasimodo, Salvatore (1901-1968): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team | |
| NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY: ST. JOHN PERSE, LUIGI PIRANDELLO, HENRIK PONTOPPIDAN & SALVATORE QUASIMODO by Nobel Prize Library |
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