Menotti Lerro: Man

Menotti Lerro is Italian poet. Explore interesting quotes on man.

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“And yet in no time they disappear, / perhaps to reappear in a dream… / But now they are dead, / deleted without having lived / because each man exists just for himself / and when he dies (did he live?) nobody knows / that once he breathed.”

Menotti Lerro

Source: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 49

Time , Dead , Dreams

“Remember that the sun doesn’t belong more to a man than to you. Never let yourself to be put in the shadow.”

Menotti Lerro

Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
Theater Quotes

Sun

“If you want understand how a woman loves you just have to listen her words backwards. If you want to understand how a man loves, when he talks about love you must close your ears.”

Menotti Lerro

Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
Theater Quotes

Love , Understanding

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

Menotti Lerro

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

Pain

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

Menotti Lerro

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

Understanding , World