Antonio Machado Quotes

• Viajeros, no hay camino, los caminos se hacen al andar.

  Antonio Machado

  Travel, Time, Journey

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• Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

  Antonio Machado

  Dream, Important, Wake Up

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.151, Wesleyan University Press

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• The deepest words
  of the wise man teach us
  the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
  or the sound of the water when it is flowing.

  Antonio Machado

  Wise, Wisdom, Blow

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.69, Wesleyan University Press

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• Mi alma no está dormida. Está despierta, muy despierta. No duerme ni sueña, sino que observa, con los ojos bien abiertos las cosas lejanas, y escucha a orillas del gran silencio.

  Antonio Machado

  Sueño, Sueño, Ojo

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• I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

  Antonio Machado

  Fire, Ashes, Fingers

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.151, Wesleyan University Press

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• Traveler, there is no path, the path must be
  forged as you walk.

  Antonio Machado

  Path, Traveler, Walks

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• What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

  Antonio Machado

  Garden, Soul, Done

  Antonio Machado, “The Wind, One BrILLIant Day”

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• Amo a Jesús, que nos dijo: El cielo y la tierra pasarán. Cuando el cielo y la tierra hayan pasado, mi palabra permanecerá. ¿Cuál era tu palabra, Jesús? ¿Amor? ¿Perdón? ¿Amor? Todas tus palabras fueron una sola palabra: Despertar.

  Antonio Machado

  Jesus, Heaven, Passing Away

  Antonio Machado, Robert Bly (1983). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.109, Wesleyan University Press

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• Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

  Antonio Machado

  Thinking, Fool, Values

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• All our efforts must tend towards light.

  Antonio Machado

  Light, Effort

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• Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

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• Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

  Antonio Machado

  Patience, Running, Trying

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Selected poems”, Harvard Univ Pr

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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.

  Antonio Machado

  Success, Sweet, Heart

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press

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• Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

  Antonio Machado

  Inspiración, Creer, Pensar

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)

  Antonio Machado

  Hay, Als, Path

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• Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

  Antonio Machado

  Men, Judging, Advice

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• What the poet is searching for
  is not the fundamental I
  but the deep you.

  Antonio Machado

  Fundamentals, Poet

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.149, Wesleyan University Press

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• All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand

  Antonio Machado

  Long, Decision, Wish

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• XXIX Viajero, no hay camino. El camino se hace al andar. Viajero, el camino son tus huellas Y nada más. Viajero, no hay camino El camino se hace al andar. Al andar se hace camino Y al girar, miras atrás A un camino que nunca volverás a pisar Viajero, no hay camino Sólo estelas en el mar.

  Antonio Machado

  Sea, Track, Looks

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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.

  Antonio Machado

  Erotic, Traffic, Sensibility

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

  Antonio Machado

  Philosophical, Denial, Deny

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

  Antonio Machado

  Flower, Garden, Wind

  Antonio Machado, “The Wind, One BrILLIant Day”

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• Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

  Antonio Machado

  Correr, Sueño, Corazón

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

  Antonio Machado

  Believe, Reality, Philosopher

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

  Antonio Machado

  Writing, Order, Firsts

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