Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavesewas an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 September 1908
CountryItaly
Cesare Pavese quotes about
writing poetry making-love
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
mean home knowing
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
lying mean hiding
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
revenge men generous-man
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
writing talking two
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
life time party
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
destiny hard-times captains
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
time men brutal
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
life education mistake
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
ideas echoes pages
When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves
power free-will single-relationship
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
sacrifice men giving
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
sight two naked
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.