Antonio Machado. 30 sentences. Anniversary of his death

Portrait of Antonio Machado by Joaquín Sorolla. 1918.

Antonio Machado died today in 1939 in the French exile of Collioure. Representative of the Modernism and that 98 Generation, was - and still is - one of the most relevant and famous poetic voices of our country. In his verses, which we have all recited at one time or another, he cultivated from the love, religion, social and political criticism and Human nature with all its contradictions. The time goes by, the feeling or the reality y reflection on the Spain of its time are also in his work and remain in force currently. Today I choose 30 of his phrases to remember it.

30 phrases by Antonio Machado

Poet, playwright and storytellerAmong his most famous works are: ,, the one who wrote with his brother Manuel, with titles like Misfortunes of fortune, The Duchess of Benamejí o La Lola goes to the ports. And in to, his best known Solitudes o Castile fields.

1. Walker, there is no path, the path is made by walking.
2. They say that a man is not a man until he hears his name from a woman's lips.
3. In his heart he had the thorn of a passion. I managed to rip it off one day: I no longer feel my heart.
4. I thought my fire was out, and I stirred the ashes… I burned my fingers.
5. I dreamed - wonderful mistake! - that I had a hive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
6. When we first saw each other, we just reminded each other. Although it may seem absurd to you, I have cried when I was aware of my love for you, for not having loved you all my life.
7. The eye that you see is not an eye because you see it, it is an eye because it sees you.
8. The truth is what it is, and it remains true even if you think backwards.
9. Did you say half the truth? They will say you lie twice if you tell the other half.
10. After the truth there is nothing as beautiful as fiction.
11. In my loneliness I have seen very clear things that are not true.
12. Given the choice between the truth and the pleasure of seeking it, we would choose the latter.
13. Worse than seeing black reality is not seeing it.
14. After living and dreaming is what matters most: waking up.
15. All that is ignored, despised.
16. Slow and good handwriting, that doing things well, matters more than doing them.
17. Today is always still.
18. Men of Spain, neither the past has died nor is tomorrow, nor yesterday, written.
19. Whenever I deal with men from the fields, I think about how much they know and we ignore, and how little it matters to them to know how much we know.
20. In Spain, out of every ten heads, nine attack and one thinks.
21. Little Spanish who come into the world, God save you, one of the two Spains has to freeze your heart.
22. In politics, only those who put the candle where the air blows triumph; never who wants to blow the air where he puts the candle.
23. To dialogue, ask first; later ... listen.
24. No one should be scared of what they think, even if their thinking appears to conflict with the most elementary laws of logic.
25. Of what men call virtue, justice and goodness, one half is envy, and the other is not charity.
26. No matter how much a man is worth, he will never have a higher value than that of being a man.
27. I disdain the romances of the hollow tenors and the chorus of crickets that sing to the moon. To distinguish I stand the voices of the echoes, and I only hear, among the voices, one.
28. Blessed is he who forgets the reason for the trip and, in the star, in the flower, in the clouds, leaves his soul on fire.
29. It is the best of the good who knows that in this life everything is a matter of measure: a little more, a little less ...
30. The good is the one who keeps, like the sale of the road, for the thirsty the water, for the drunkard the wine.