“He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world ...” — Salvatore Quasimodo Quote

“He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.”

“The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.”

“Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.”

“Birth, not death, is the hard loss.”

“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”

“Once in a while i am struck”