20 phrases by Marina Colasanti to delight in the author’s writing

I hesitate, but I admit it: I don’t even believe what I say.

When it rains and there is no sun, what moves the sunflower?

Your body is a canoe in which I descend life below, death above looking for the shipwreck, giving me adrift.

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist, I am an analyst.

I open the closet door, as I open a diary, my life hanging there.

And yet I learn to live, as I advance along the path where life collides with death.

Human beings often say one thing and think another, pretend to be what they’re not, pretend their intentions.

I will never know the image others have of me… I don’t know the movements of my face. I never saw myself for the first time. I have a preconceived idea of ​​myself that combines the spirit with facial features and the desire for another beauty.

I need a boat to cross the sea far away to get out of this chair, to forget about this computer.

Love is not crazy. He knows very well what he is doing, and he never, ever acts without reason.

But love and suffering are life, and by denying them you deny yourself.

A fish’s memory only records one second. But how much is time in your world worth?

To say certain things, other words are needed, new words, never said before.

Throw time in the water and it swims.

For the pessimist, rain on a sunny day has to be predicted.

Selling at auction what little is left of my heart.

Giving poetry to children’s bottles, poetry stays forever, one becomes a poetry reader.

I would like to be how others see me. Or for others to see me for who I am. There would thus be only one person.

Only when the first breath escapes between the lips of the morning will I lift anchor.

To say certain things, words that dawn are needed.