Alda Merini famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions...
I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

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