Alda Merini

Overview

Alda Merini born Milan, Italy March 21, 1931 (d. 2009). Italian poetess; wrote antiwar songs, including “The Albatross”.

Quotations

I was a bird
by gentle white belly
someone cut my throat
to laugh about
I do not know.
I was a big albatross
and travelling on the seas
someone stopped my trip
without any sound charity.
But even lying on the ground
I sing for you now
my love songs.

(“The Albatross”; photo ilgiorno.it)