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Leggiamo ed ascoltiamo la poesia “L’uomo e la donna”
Summary
Sigilliamo la festa degli innamorati con questa meravigliosa e famosa poesia di Victor Hugo.
Victor-Marie Hugo, more commonly known as Victor Hugo (French pronunciation [vikˈtɔʁ maˈʁi yˈgo]; Besançon, 26 February 1802 – Paris, 22 May 1885) wasa French writer, poet, playwright and politician,considered the father ofRomancein France. She tried her hand at numerous…View more
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Man is the highest of creatures.
Woman is the most sublime of ideals.
God made a throne for man, an altar for woman.
The throne exalts, the altar sanctifies.
Man is the brain. The woman the heart.
The brain produces light, the heart produces love.
The fruitful light, love resurrects.
Man is strong for reason.
The woman is invincible to tears.
Reason convinces, tears move.
Man is capable of all heroism.
The woman of all martyrs.
Heroism ennobles, martyrdom sublimates.
Man has supremacy.
The woman is the preference.
Supremacy means strength;
preference represents right.
The man is a genius. The woman is an angel.
Genius is immeasurable;
the indefinable angel.
Man's aspiration is the supreme glory.
Woman's aspiration is the ultimate virtue.
Glory makes everything great; virtue makes everything divine.
Man is a code. The woman is a gospel.
The code corrects, the gospel perfects.
The man thinks. The woman dreams.
To think is to have the skull of a larva;
to dream is to have a halo on your forehead.
Man is an ocean. The woman a lake.
The ocean has the pearl it adorns;
the lake the poetry that dazzles.
Man is the eagle that flies.
The woman is the nightingale that sings.
To fly is to dominate space;
to sing is to conquer the Soul.
Man is a temple. The woman the shrine.
In front of the temple we discover ourselves;
we kneel in front of the shrine. In the end:
man is found where the earth ends,
the woman where the sky begins.