Pier Paolo Pasolini's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 87 votes from people: To be a poet, you need a lot of time. · Only loving, only knowing matters, not having loved, not having known. · Do not fool yourself: passion is never forgiven.. (Updated Feb 17, 2026.)
"I am a force of the Past", the body as a land not yet colonised by power and the courage of truth in Italy: the most quoted lines of Pier Paolo Pasolini, from his poems to the Scritti corsari, with their source.
Automatically translated (original in Italiano). See the original
Top 13
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To be a poet, you need a lot of time.
"To the Prince", in The Religion of My Time (1961).
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Only loving, only knowing matters, not having loved, not having known.
"The Cry of the Excavator", in The Ashes of Gramsci (1957).
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Do not fool yourself: passion is never forgiven.
"To Chiaromonte", in The Religion of My Time (1961).
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Solitude: you have to be very strong to love solitude.
"Verses of the Testament", in Trasumanar e organizzar (1971).
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The body: there is a land not yet colonised by power.
Essays on Politics and Society.
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I am a force of the Past. My love lies only in tradition.
Poesie mondane, in Poetry in the Form of a Rose (1964).
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The intellectual courage of truth and political practice are two irreconcilable things in Italy.
"The Novel of the Massacres", in Scritti corsari (1975).
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Whoever is scandalised is always banal; and, I would add, always badly informed.
Lutheran Letters (1976).
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Love, in the end, is aridity.
"Language", in The Nightingale of the Catholic Church (1958).
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But of course, to understand how people change, you have to love them.
"The Article on the Fireflies", in Scritti corsari (1975).
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Vulgarity is conformity in full bloom.
La Divina Mimesis (1975).
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I know this: those who demand freedom then do not know what to do with it.
Il caos, his column in Tempo (1968).
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We hate the conformity of others because it keeps us from taking an interest in our own.
La Divina Mimesis (1975).
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