Massimo Bertolin

“I am uncomfortably aware of the very little I have seen and experienced in general, and of our country in particular,' Miss Trevelyan had just confessed, 'but the little I have seen is less, I like to feel, than what I know. Knowledge was never a matter of geography. Quite the reverse, it overflows all maps that exist. Perhaps true knowledge only comes from death by torture in the country of the mind.'
She laughed somewhat painfully.
'You will understand that. Some of you, at least, are the discoverers,' she said, and looked at them.”
― Patrick White, Voss

“It's in these moments, next to you, that I envy words for doing what we can never do-- how they can tell all of themselves simply by standing still, simply by being. Imagine I could lie down beside you and my whole body, every cell, radiates a clear, singular meaning, not so much a writer as a word pressed down beside you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Dic nobis Maria: quid vidisti in via?
Ho visto trionfare le cose puttane, emarginarsi le vere.”
― Andrea Zanzotto, Tutte le poesie

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums