Giuseppe Ungaretti Quotes & Sayings

Of this poetry
I'm left with the emptiness
of an endless secret — Giuseppe Ungaretti

M'Illumino D'Immenso - I flood myself with the light of the immense. — Giuseppe Ungaretti

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

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

Tonight
A parapet of breeze
tonight on which to lean
my melancholy — Giuseppe Ungaretti

Let me be
like
a thing
left
in a
corner
and forgotten — Giuseppe Ungaretti