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Salvatore Quasimodo

poet, linguist, writer, translator, screenwriter, university teacher, journalist, literary critic, critic

1901 – 1968

Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he was one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.

All Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

“In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.”

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.”

— Salvatore Quasimodo