If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

He and his mother taught students unable to reach the schools in Pordenone or Udine. He managed to escape disguised as a peasant and found his way to Casarsa. He suggested there was no need for spiritual essence or supernatural blessing to attain this state.

Influential American literary critic Harold Bloom considers Pasolini to be a major European poet and a major voice in 20th-century poetry including his works in his collection of the Western Canon. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility becoming a highly controversial figure in the process. Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian: [ˈpjɛr ˈpaolo pazoˈlini]; March 5 1922 – November 2 1975) was an Italian film director poet writer and intellectual.