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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
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.Salvatore Quasimodo
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.Salvatore Quasimodo
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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
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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
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The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.Salvatore Quasimodo