Poetry Pasolini Quotes

“When it's harder to live,
is life more absolute?
On my mute senses
evening shores, also mute
is the old reason
defining my selfhood:
it is an inner path
a silent underwood
where all is nature.
Toilsome labor
of obscure existence,
you alone are necessary...
And gently you drive me
beyond human boundaries”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini, Selected Poems

“Poor as the poor myself, I cling tight, like them, to demeaning hopes; like them, every day of my life I fight/just to live/Yet in my disheartening condition as one of the dispossessed, I still possess--and it's the most thrilling of bourgeois possessions, the ultimate state of being. Yet as I possess history, I am possessed by it, I am enlightened by it: but what good is the light?”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini, Selected Poems