Alejandra Pizarnik's most quoted lines
The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: The cage has become a bird and has devoured my hopes. · I am a sad being dressed by mistake in euphoria. · There is so much loneliness that words commit suicide.. (Updated Jun 7, 2020.)
"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.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 11
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The cage has become a bird and has devoured my hopes.
The Lost Adventures (1958).
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I am a sad being dressed by mistake in euphoria.
Diaries, 20 July 1955.
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There is so much loneliness that words commit suicide.
Extraction of the Stone of Folly (1968).
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4
At the hour of death one sings for oneself, not for others.
Complete Prose, "House of quotations".
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5
Words do not make love, they make absence. If I say water, will I drink? If I say bread, will I eat?
Poem "In this night, in this world" (1971).
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Perhaps night is life and the sun is death.
The Lost Adventures (1958).
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True celebrations take place in the body and in dreams.
Complete Poems.
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Nothing is more intense than the terror of losing one's identity.
Poem "The night, the poem" (1969).
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9
I do not want to know. I do not want to know myself knowing.
Complete Prose, "Possible unions".
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10
I have felt love and they mistreated it. No one resembles my dream.
Poem "Memories of the little house of song".
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11
There is love in the same way that I just went out into the night and said: there is wind.
Complete Prose, "Words".
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