Antonio Machado
Poet
1875-07-26 – 1939-02-22
Antonio Machado was a Spanish poet and a leading figure of the Generation of 98. He was born on 1875-07-26 and died on 1939-02-22 in exile in France. His work is central to modern Spanish literature.
Quotes by Antonio Machado
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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.
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I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.
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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 never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.
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Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
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I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.
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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 never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.
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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.
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Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
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Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has never experienced.
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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
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Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
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The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.
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Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
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There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
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The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
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Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
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The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.
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