Alda Merini Quotes & Sayings

I used to hold a fiery wind
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini

I don't like Paradise,
As they probably don't have obsessions there. — Alda Merini

As for me, I used to be a bird
with a gentle white womb,
someone cut my throat
just for laughs,
I don't know.
As for me, I used to be a great albatross
and whirled over the seas.
Someone put an end to my journey,
without any charity in the tone of it.
But even stretched out on the ground
I sing for you now
my songs of love. — Alda Merini

No one brushes my hair as well as the wind. — Alda Merini

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

We are hungry for tenderness,
in a world where everything abounds
we are poor of this feeling
which is like a caress
for our heart
we need these small gestures
that make us feel good
Tenderness
is a disinterested and generous love,
that does not ask anything else
to be understood and appreciated. — Alda Merini