"Fanfares of trumpets usually announced only small, futile things, it was a way fate had of teasing people. You felt a…"

"But it was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn fro…"

"Groups? Movements? I don’t really think these groups exist. I don’t think in Italy there even are such things as curr…"

"(Are there other English language writers who mean a lot to you?) NG: Well, of course, Shakespeare. And I love George…"

"dialect is really impossible to translate adequately."

"I’m not really a poet. It’s only once in a while that what I have to say seems to find its best expression in a poem.…"

"(there must have been other writers whom you regarded as models.) NG: In my adolescence, the Russians were tremendous…"

"Style is not something that can be improvised: one has to construct it, to make it."

"in my own work...there’s an important sense of the visual, of the visualized. I see it all so vividly. It’s not that …"

"they laughed a little and were very friendly together, the three of them, Anna, Emanuele and Giustino; and they were …"