By Leopardi: Chi ha disperato di se stesso, o per qualunque ragione, si ama meno vivamente, è meno invidioso, odia meno i suoi simili, ed è quindi più suscettibile di amicizia per questa parte, o almeno in minor contraddizione con lei. Chi più si ama meno può amare. In fact, every virtuous relationship that can exist between two human beings is based on what goes against self-love, that is, modesty, benevolence and selflessness. Without these virtues, there is nothing to be done, and relationships will never be anything more than a terrain of interests and disputes in which those involved ga ..read more

Periodically, over the space of a few generations, societies have to revalidate the foundations bequeathed by tradition, and they do not do so until they go through the very same crises that led to the need for their establishment. The objective, to pacify understandings and avoid new crises, is achieved only until those who have kept it in their memory die, or not at all. History, in this respect, only demonstrates its failure to a few intellectuals. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

Despite the general recommendation, the writer whose life is involuntarily invaded and disturbed by politics has not the right, but the duty to insert politics into his literary work. This is, in short, an obligation to future generations, to whom he must pass on the flavor of his personal experience. Not to do so is to deny oneself. A political prisoner, then, even if he is against it, has lost the right to remain silent about the oppression he has suffered, and it is precisely he who has the mission of giving the lines a political flavor, because it is precisely he who has the the support of ..read more

It is true that study often uncovers the complexity of subjects that the average man does not even suspect are complex. This discovery, however, although it may rightly call for caution, should never have a paralyzing effect on the mind, which will ultimately have to decide. The same skepticism used by some as an inductive tool for the best choice is used by others as a shield—a very effective one—for an innate inability to choose. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

More curious than examples like Baudelaire’s, who found his aesthetic theory essay already described and practiced elsewhere, is to come across authors, coeval or not, who are similar in content and form, although they are unknown to each other. There are many examples of this, and they attest to the fact that authentic literary manifestation is more of an instinctive impulse, more associated with the particularities of experience than with proper literary study. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

Poetry, as Guyau suggests, is not enough on its own and, if it is great, it is the form that creates an even greater motivation. This is why, in short, the value of art is tied to the value of artistic motivation. The choice of poetic form is the desire to record in the most difficult and superior of literary forms what is sincerely and violently manifested in the innermost being: it is, in short, the appreciation of this singular manifestation. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

This instinctive repulsion, this irrational dislike of something or someone, often proves to be more reasonable than the most meticulous reasoning. It is very curious to have this manifestation, perhaps motivated by the most atavistic survival instinct, which generates a warning about what there is no reason to be suspicious of. And then, over and over again, follow it to later relieve the mistake not made—and be impressed by this mysterious ability… Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

Most of the obstacles to creation are overcome the moment inertia is broken; from then on, the work is more about correcting, perfecting than actually creating—or so it seems, which is the same for the working mind. The movement, once started, gives a fluidity that induces, if not automates the sequence, making it absolutely easier to continue, compared to that dreadful beginning. It is therefore about forcing the start, so that it will be never allowed to be swallowed up by inertia. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

After setting up an efficient creative process, what the creative professional must do immediately is find a way to give vent to their spontaneous mental manifestations, or rather, he must find a way to transform them mechanically into something artistically acceptable, so that he avoids not only losing them, but getting lost in the confusion of a myriad of imprecise and disconnected ideas, the sight of which will more easily lead him to paralysis than to action. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

Nothing is more destructive to the conscience than the daily practice of a meaningless act, the consequences of which are not experienced by the person who carried it out. The resulting detachment from reality is so extreme that it ends up annulling the notion of the individual, also annulling morality and the possibility of evolution. If one does not recognize oneself, one does not recognize the other, one does not recognize the past, one does not recognize life. The need to live therefore disappears. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more