| Author Quoted | Salvatore Quasimodo |
| Title Quoted | False and True Green / translation from the Italian: Il falso e vero verde |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1961/01/26 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1953 |
| Quotation | [Salvatore] Quasimodo's wonderful poem on Auschwitz [Complete Poems, New York, 1984] sees this. I am deeply influenced by Quasimodo, richness, firmness of his imagery, sober, spiritual. He is no Marxist poet even though his political sympathies may be that way. He is of my country. |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 91 |
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