Salvatore Quasimodo

“Each of us is alone on the heart of the earth, pierced by a ray of sunlight: and suddenly it's evening.”

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

“Death is not in diminishing but in not being able to grow.”

“To remake man. This is the urgent task.”

“Life is not a dream. It is a harsh duty.”

“The poet has only one theme: the human condition.”

“In the heart of man, there is a perpetual civil war.”

“A poet is a man who has not lost his childhood.”

“Words tire me.”

“Man is a fragile creature, blessed with a flickering intellect.”

“My land is Sicily.”

“And it’s suddenly evening.”

“I have forgotten the sea.”