14 quotes found
Poet · Spanish · 1875–1939
Spanish poet (1875–1939)
“Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.”
“Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.”
“Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.”
“I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.”
“Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.”
“Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.”
“Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that neve...”
“Hope says: one dayyou will see her, if you will only wait.Despair says:all you have left of her is your bitterness.Beat, heartThe earthhas not swallowed everything.”
“I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”
“I.Don't trace out your profile--forget your side view--all that is outer stuff.II.Look for your other halfwho walks always next to youand tends to be who you aren't.”
“Like an abandoned dog who cannot finda smell or a track and roamsalong the roads, with no road, likethe child who in a night of the fairgets lost among the crowd,and the air is dusty, and the candl...”
“While the burning fish is tracing his arcnear the cypress, beneath the highest blue of all,and the blind boy flies away in the white stone,and the ivory poem of the green cicadabeats and reverberat...”
“When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingAnd rested, which rest it certainly deserved,Night now accompanied day, and manHad his friend in the absence of the woman.”
“All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.”
