Salvatore Quasimodo said this quote

No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!

~ Salvatore Quasimodo

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

~ Salvatore Quasimodo

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.

~ Salvatore Quasimodo

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

~ Salvatore Quasimodo