# Alejandra Pizarnik's most quoted lines

"I am a sad being dressed by mistake in euphoria", the cage that becomes a bird and words that make absence: the most quoted lines of Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik, from her poems and diaries.

- 6 votes · 11 items
- Jun 7, 2020 · cacharrero_mendoza
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## Top 11

1. **The cage has become a bird and has devoured my hopes.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Lost Adventures (1958).
2. **I am a sad being dressed by mistake in euphoria.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Diaries, 20 July 1955.
3. **There is so much loneliness that words commit suicide.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Extraction of the Stone of Folly (1968).
4. **At the hour of death one sings for oneself, not for others.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Complete Prose, "House of quotations".
5. **Words do not make love, they make absence. If I say water, will I drink? If I say bread, will I eat?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "In this night, in this world" (1971).
6. **Perhaps night is life and the sun is death.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Lost Adventures (1958).
7. **True celebrations take place in the body and in dreams.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Complete Poems.
8. **Nothing is more intense than the terror of losing one's identity.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "The night, the poem" (1969).
9. **I do not want to know. I do not want to know myself knowing.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Complete Prose, "Possible unions".
10. **I have felt love and they mistreated it. No one resembles my dream.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "Memories of the little house of song".
11. **There is love in the same way that I just went out into the night and said: there is wind.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Complete Prose, "Words".

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