Giuseppe Ungaretti Quotes

#1. Appreciate your mom. She is wiser than you think and stronger than you know. Be thankful.

Steve Maraboli

#2. Thus began a break of undetermined length and meaning.

Jacob Slichter

#3. He rests in the graveyard of Ivry
a suburb that always
looks like the day
the carnival comes down.
And perhaps only I
still know
that he was alive.

Giuseppe Ungaretti

#4. Excessive record-keeping is a symptom of insecurity and defensive thinking. It indicates that you are less concerned attaining objectives than you are with documentation, and that your thinking is oriented to the past, not the present.

Edwin Bliss

#5. Tonight
A parapet of breeze
tonight on which to lean
my melancholy

Giuseppe Ungaretti

#6. With my wolf's hunger
I haul my lamb's body
down like a sail
I am like
the wretched boat
and the lascivious sea

Giuseppe Ungaretti

#7. It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Francis Bacon

#9. Of this poetry
I'm left with the emptiness
of an endless secret

Giuseppe Ungaretti

#10. Let me be
like
a thing
left
in a
corner
and forgotten

Giuseppe Ungaretti

#11. M'Illumino D'Immenso - I flood myself with the light of the immense.

Giuseppe Ungaretti