“The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy o...” — Salvatore Quasimodo Quote

“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.”

“The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.”

“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.”

“Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.”

“Everybody walks around talking about, 'Sam Allardyce's style is not good enough, he doesn't play the right way' and so on and so forth and it is a massive problem for me. People believe it. You believe the false lies, the false implications. Football does that - it believes that lie sometimes.”

“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”