“The absence of one we love is not solitude, it is severance.”
Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet
L’assenza di chi si ama non è solitudine è ablazione.
“Solitude is not the absence of Love, but its complement.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Solitude
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