"When the poet is in love, he is……" — Umberto Eco
"When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love."
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site.
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated…
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More Incapable Quotes
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging,…
— Walter Benjamin
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
— Mitch Albom
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
— Albert Camus
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it…
— Alexis Carrel
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I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live…
— Charles Babbage
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to…
— Blaise Pascal
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According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe…
— John Baillie
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