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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

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

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

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

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

Alda Merini
Heaven, Paradise, Obsession

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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