1. “I know beginnings, I know endings to, and life-in-death, and something else I’d rather not recall just now.”
2. “The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.”
3. “It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”
4. “There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.”
5. “You do not know just what you’ve been forgiven.”
6. “Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.”
7. “I seem to myself, as in a dream. Am accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
8. “Real tenderness can’t be confuse, It’s quiet and can’t be heard.”
9. “It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.”
10. “The secret of secrets is inside me again.”
11. “Rising from the past, my shadow is running in silence to meet me.”
12. “We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.”
13. “If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.”
14. “Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.”
15. “We thought: we’re poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God’s great generosity and our former riches.”
