Menotti Lerro Quotes

We should never be afraid of our dreams, but only of who doesn’t want to make us dream.

Non c’è giorno senza tenebre e notte senza luce.

The perfect couple is the one which the more one is faraway from the other, the more closer they feel.

We do not have anything, but the body. The soul is an invention, dust of the cross.

The false teeth that kissed me / remained here / after you went away. / I sometimes look at them / and see you cleaning them again with string, / with a twig from the field / and then blow on them, patiently, with love. / One day, maybe, I will give them to my jaws. (From: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 20)

Often behind a great man there is great pain.

Women don’t think with the heart, but with emotions.

Wherever will the promised light be? Is there a paradise among the clouds maybe, rest in the wind, refreshment on the seabed? Where does the dark, the insomnia, the madness, the crying, the illness, the death finish? Where does God hide himself?

Spesso dietro un grande uomo c’è una grande sofferenza.

I think that at the bottom of every artist there is absence.

Happiness is the illusion of being happy, unhappiness is the fear of being it. A little bit of fear helps you to live in the light, too much strangles you in the dark.

Tonight I have no desire to sleep. / I want to remain here until morning / writing poetry. / The heart drowns less slowly / when the pen sheds tears / and the paper dries pain. (From: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 55)

The absence of one we love is not solitude, it is severance.

Bisognerebbe vivere due vite per capire il mondo: una come uomo e l’altra come donna.

We were born as a blank page and we will die as a black page.