Alda Merini quotes
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“I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.”
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“I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.”
-- Alda MeriniSource : Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.99, Princeton University Press
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“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.”
-- Alda MeriniSource : Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.51, Princeton University Press
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- Alda Merini
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Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.
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“The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.”
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“There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,”
Source : "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.
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“To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.”
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“I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.”
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