7 Quotes & Sayings By Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951. His childhood was spent in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of New York City. He received his BA from Brooklyn College and his MA from Hunter College, where he wrote the first doctoral dissertation on Italian Renaissance painting. Mr Read more

Quasimodo has taught art history at Washington University in St. Louis, Virginia Commonwealth University, City College of New York, the University of Florence, the University of California at Berkeley, and Columbia University. He also taught at Hunter College and The Catholic University of America, where he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on his book about Michelangelo and his Lucretia.

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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