Menotti Lerro: Quotes about love

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

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“The false teeth that kissed me / remained here / after you went away. / I sometimes look at them / and see you cleaning them again with string, / with a twig from the field / and then blow on them, patiently, with love. / One day, maybe, I will give them to my jaws.”

Source: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 20

“Betraying who you love is like betraying yourself!”

Donna Giovanna, Act III, scene iv.
Theater Quotes

“If you are stupid they’ll humiliate you, if you’re wise they’ll hate you, if you’re beautiful they’ll kill you, and nor the virtues nor the weaknesses of a woman are ever forgiven. Men are blind of rage for being born as monsters, for not being capable to be loved and to love themselves.”

Brunella, Act II, scene ii.
Theater Quotes

“I want to follow the instinct, the passion of my desire, once unspeakable. The moments of love serve to remind us that our condition tends to happiness!”

Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
Theater Quotes

“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.”

Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
Theater Quotes

“The absence of one we love is not solitude, it is severance.”

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

“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.