Menotti Lerro Quotes

Italian poet

Menotti Lerro (born February 22, 1980) is an Italian poet, writer, playwright, critic, librettist and academic. In 2020 he founded the Empathic Movement (Empathism).

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Alternative Names: Menotti Augusto Serse Lerro

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Often behind a great man there is great pain.

Yes, warn her! Warn her that I’ve decided to put an end to her existence. Life is nothing but a river destined to dry itself, a source kept luxuriant for a few years by the rain that falls from our own eyes.

There is no day without darkness and night without light.

Poetry cannot be imprisoned in one definition and therefore I myself would have a lot of them, yet no definite and certain definition. I will define, consequently, this literary genre in a different way in comparison with my previous definitions. To being with, I would say that poetry itself is a tool that defines us and the universe, because it is quintessence. (Defining Poetry. From The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, p. 1)

If you want understand how a woman loves you just have to listen her words backwards. If you want to understand how a man loves, when he talks about love you must close your ears.