Quotes About Merini

#1. I don't like Paradise,
As they probably don't have obsessions there.

Alda Merini

#2. Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when we return to the spots where they happened.

Siri Hustvedt

#5. The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.

Kim Cattrall

#6. 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

#7. The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job

John A. Keel

#8. No one brushes my hair as well as the wind.

Alda Merini

#9. In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probably just a lot of clowning around.

Rory McIlroy

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

Alda Merini