Ungaretti Quotes

#1. 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

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

Giuseppe Ungaretti

#3. 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

#4. If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

Malcolm Forbes

#5. He loves but little who can say and count in words how much he loves

Dante Alighieri

#6. I'm five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.

Jennifer Niven

#7. Public support must be husbanded as a finite national resource. It must be spent wisely, sparingly, and with the greatest return on your investment.

Max Brooks

#8. Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people ... Fennel ... smelling of changes to come.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#9. I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

Nicolas Berggruen

#10. And each time the cowardice that deters us from every difficult task, every important enterprise, has urged me to leave the thing alone, to drink my tea and to think merely of the worries of today and my hopes for tomorrow, which can be brooded over painlessly.

Marcel Proust

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

Giuseppe Ungaretti

#12. Nothing became my everything, and my biggest hope.

Laure Lacornette

#13. only one Person can live the Christian life, and that is Christ Himself; and only as I
trust Him to live His life in me, can I possibly live the quality of life that satisfies the heart of God and challenges the world in which I witness.19

Stephen Seamands

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

Giuseppe Ungaretti

#15. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven asporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.

Samuel Beckett

#16. Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman!

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

Georges Braque

#18. Electric, wild, one foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out. And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was.
(Mac about Barrons)

Karen Marie Moning

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

Giuseppe Ungaretti