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Overview

  • 11 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Italian; learning German, Latin
  • Unspecified age, Male
  • Member since 2005
  • Teacher
  • No education listed
  • From San Zeno di Montagna (Verona), my land, my roots, my people
  • Profile 80% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Spreading the wings of poetry all over the world

ABOUT ME

I am The Poet, I bear inside the lymph of the earth, I feel the breath of the world, and I feed myself on it. I'm the real and the mirror, I feel like devil's saintliness, I usually lapse into sin by eating the forbidden apple, and wait for the imminent punishment

PHILOSOPHY

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Interests

World: to visit it and to know peoples,usages, foods, history of every country.
Brain: books, movies, theatre, music. I would like to spread the real italian culture all over the world, which is not only mafia, spaghetti and berlusconi, as many think
Sports: soccer, basketball, volleyball, running, swimming...

  • culture
  • books
  • poetry
  • running
  • movies
  • music
  • sports
  • basketball
  • soccer
  • volleyball
  • swimming
  • history

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, San Marino, Serbia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Hungary, Italy

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