Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Alda Merini

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian writer Alda Merini.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Alda Merini was an Italian writer and poet. Her work earned the attention and the admiration of other Italian writers, such as Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Italian - Writer | March 21, 1931 - November 1, 2009

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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.

Alda Merini

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

Alda Merini

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 Merini

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

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

Alda Merini

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Alda Merini

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