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Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian poet renowned for his concise and profound poetic style. His works often explore themes of loneliness, love, and war, and are cherished by Italian literary circles and poetry enthusiasts around the world. more

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“Emotions are not built-in but made from more basic parts. They are not universal but vary from culture to culture. They are not triggered, you create them. They emerge as a combination of the physical properties of your body, a flexible brain that wires itself to whatever environment it develops in, and your culture and upbringing, which provide that environment.' 20. Quoting Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain 2017, xii.”

“Let me be the way I'm born to be, writing love letters to the sea, in the quiet weaving of memories, making flowers of all that remains. Let me be the way I'm born to be, drunken with ecstasy, unfurled freshly, for had I not known what agony is, I would have stayed furled as a bud in deep. Let me be the way I'm born to be, the lover of serenity, for had I not left the crowds of people, I would have never known what solitude truly is. Let me be the way I'm born to be, the solitary soul, aware, awake, and playful with life.”