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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. Februar 1980
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“Tonight I have no desire to sleep. / I want to remain here until morning / writing poetry. / The heart drowns less slowly / when the pen sheds tears / and the paper dries pain.”

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Quelle: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 55

“Nothing belongs to us / but dreams / confused images of the night, / voices that we do not distinguish anymore.”

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Quelle: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 52

“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.”

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Quelle: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 49

“We grow old in people’s eyes / or when, opening a wardrobe, / the mirror takes us by surprise. / We grow old, half-plunged / in our rivers / seeing portraits reflected / when images flow among a thousand folds; / we grow old in twisted reflections of cutlery / and glasses.”

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From The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 41

“The infinite is inside / our eyes; / not outside, not in the things / of this world, / but in their shadows. / Night, Death, Blinking, / take us through the universe again, / out of time.”

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Quelle: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 40

“If life is a mixture of drained rivers / which carry to the sea echoes of water, / we are nothing but shadows – / reflected lights of dead bodies without no possible outlet or shore.”

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From The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 37

“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.”

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Quelle: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 20

“When a devil, but also a saint, laughs about your poetry, you laugh about his ignorance!”

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Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.

“Men were born to die! Life has only one purpose: to understand the sense of your own misery.”

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Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.

“I’ve never been afraid to die. Death in my dreams is a walk, compared to what we call life. If I have to fall, I want to do it my way, without anybody supporting me or pushing me.”

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Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.
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“If God entrusted his word to priests, it’s easy to explain why the world refuses to listen to it.”

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Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene ii.
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“The perfect couple is the one which the more one is faraway from the other, the more closer they feel.”

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Donna Giovanna, Act III, scene iv.
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“We should never be afraid of our dreams, but only of who doesn’t want to make us dream.”

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Dario, Act III, scene iV.
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“I know that in a pure heart a wicked person does more damage than a hailstorm in a vineyard.”

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Dario, Act II, scene ii.
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“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.”

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Brunella, Act II, scene ii.
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“Yes, warn her! Warn her that I’ve decided to put an end to her existence. Life is nothing but a river destined to dry itself, a source kept luxuriant for a few years by the rain that falls from our own eyes.”

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Donna Giovanna, Act II, scene ii.
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“We deceive ourselves to be the same for our whole life, instead we are other every moment.”

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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
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“Happiness is the illusion of being happy, unhappiness is the fear of being it. A little bit of fear helps you to live in the light, too much strangles you in the dark.”

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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
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“We were born boys or girls, but we don’t know what we will become, to which gender we will belong to at death.”

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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
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“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!”

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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
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“Remember that the sun doesn’t belong more to a man than to you. Never let yourself to be put in the shadow.”

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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
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“Men are like wine. You taste them, they seem good, they arouse your senses... But after? You suddenly find yourself with your head spinning. And if you are not careful, if you don’t chose only those high quality ones, you will end up feeling also nauseated.”

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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
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“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.”

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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
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“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?”

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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