Menotti Lerro Quotes

Menotti Lerro is an Italian poet, writer, playwright, librettist and academic, born in Omignano, Salerno. His work explore matters of social alienation and existentialism, the physicality and vulnerability of the body, the interpretation of memories, the meaning of objects and the philosophical importance of human identity. In 2015 he published Donna Giovanna, l'ingannatrice di Salerno, an innovative feminine and bisexual version of the mythical figure of Don Juan, El Burlador de Sevilla. He is the founder of the Empathic Movement.



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✵ 22. February 1980
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Famous Menotti Lerro Quotes

Menotti Lerro Quotes about love

“Betraying who you love is like betraying yourself!”

Donna Giovanna, Act III, scene iv.
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“The absence of one we love is not solitude, it is severance.”

L’assenza di chi si ama non è solitudine è ablazione.

Menotti Lerro Quotes about life

“We deceive ourselves to be the same for our whole life, instead we are other every moment.”

Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
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Menotti Lerro Quotes

“Wherever will the promised light be? Is there a paradise among the clouds maybe, rest in the wind, refreshment on the seabed? Where does the dark, the insomnia, the madness, the crying, the illness, the death finish? Where does God hide himself?”

Dove sarà mai la luce promessa? C’è forse un paradiso tra le nuvole, riposo nel vento, ristoro nei fondali marini? Dove finisce il buio, l’insonnia, la pazzia, il pianto, la malattia, la morte? Dove si nasconde Dio?
FROM: Andrew Mangham, The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011, pp. 71-72. ISBN 978-1443828444

“Religiously, I consider myself an atheistic theologian.”

Religiosamente mi reputo un teologo ateo.

“Often behind a great man there is great pain.”

Spesso dietro un grande uomo c’è una grande sofferenza.

“There is no day without darkness and night without light.”

Non c’è giorno senza tenebre e notte senza luce.

“We should live two lives in order to understand the world: one as a man and the other as a woman.”

Bisognerebbe vivere due vite per capire il mondo: una come uomo e l’altra come donna.

“We were born as a blank page and we will die as a black page.”

Si nasce come una pagina bianca e si muore come una pagina nera.

“When men feel happy, they think of men who love; when they feel sad they think and pray to God.”

Gli uomini quando si sentono felici pensano agli uomini che amano, quando si sentono tristi pensano e pregano Dio.

“Philosophy will fail forever its primary aim because it searches for something that does not exist.”

La filosofia fallirà per sempre il suo primario obiettivo, poiché ricerca qualcosa che non esiste.

“We do not have anything, but the body. The soul is an invention, dust of the cross.”

Non abbiamo che il corpo. L’anima è un’invenzione, polvere di croce.

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