Ofelia Mazzoni
Ofelia Mazzoni (Florence, June 29, 1883 - Milan, November 22, 1935) was an Italian writer, poet and theatrical actress.
Quotes
[edit]- Autumn, crackling death of leaves… | hope dressed in melancholy, | your sister Poetry gazes upon you | and dissolves her burden in your tears.”
- “To perform a piece of music means to awaken the written notes, giving each its particular life; to reconstruct, in a way perceptible to all, the dream of harmony that the composer fixed with a series of conventional signs—signs which are mute to the eyes of the untrained.
The task of the reader is no less noble or delicate, equally responsible and following a similar process, because writing is an imperfect notation of speech, which cannot live unless it is spoken.”
- “Writing tries to represent—with conventional signs—the spoken word, which, as we know, exists before it is written.
To rediscover it in its full meaning—almost as if reawakening the original genius from which it was born—we must speak it, we must perform it with the voice, which is the perfect means of its expression, since from the voice it first leapt into life.”
- “The comic mask suited her face just as much as the tragic one: a face well sculpted, with muscles made elastic and firm by artistic discipline, a strong brow, vast and flashing eyes, strong and well-set teeth—bright and intact, as rarely seen in one of mature age.”
- “I never heard her speak of triumphs or fame—only of the battles she had fought, and even during her peak years, of the disappointments and the boos she accepted with humble endurance from the audience—acknowledged as sovereign—even when they failed to appreciate the innovations in her repertoire.”