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Alda Merini Quotes:

Alda Merini quotes

Ocupation: Writer

Life: March 21, 1931 - November 1, 2009

Birthday: March 21

Death: November 1

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I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.

Topics: Heaven, Paradise, Obsession

quote we are hungry for tenderness in a world where everything abounds we are poor of this alda merini Quotes

I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.

source: - Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.99, Princeton University Press

Topics: Wind, Used, Determine, Fiery

In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.

Topics: Flower, Writing, Moments

We are hungry for tenderness, in a world where everything abounds we are poor of this feeling which is like a caress for our heart we need these small gestures that make us feel good Tenderness is a disinterested and generous love, that does not ask anything else to be understood and appreciated.

Topics: Heart, Feel Good, Feelings, Generous Love, Disinterested

As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for laughs, I don’t know. As for me, I used to be a great albatross and whirled over the seas. Someone put an end to my journey, without any charity in the tone of it. But even stretched out on the ground I sing for you now my songs of love.

source: - Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.51, Princeton University Press

Topics: Song, Cutting, Journey, Albatross

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