Alda Merini Quotes

• 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

  Heart, Generous Love, Feel Good

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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

  Flower, Writing, Moments

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

  Alda Merini

  Wind, Used, Determine

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

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

  Alda Merini

  Heaven, Paradise, Obsession

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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 Merini

  Song, Cutting, Journey

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

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