Claude McKay Citas

• Si un hombre no es fiel a su propia individualidad, no puede ser fiel a nada.

  Claude McKay

  Inspiración, Fe, Hombres

  Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett (1937). “A Long Way from Home”, p.82, Rutgers University Press

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• La dignidad humana es más valiosa que el prestigio.

  Claude McKay

  Dignity, Prestige, Human Dignity

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• I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

  Claude McKay

  Loneliness, Dark, Differences

  Claude McKay, William J. Maxwell (2004). “Complete Poems”, p.348, University of Illinois Press

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• We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.

  Claude McKay

  Color, Tree

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• It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.

  Claude McKay

  Fallos

  Claude McKay (1973). “The passion of Claude McKay: selected poetry and prose, 1912-1948”, Schocken

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• If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

  Claude McKay

  Dignity, Spots, Hog

  Claude McKay (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

  Claude McKay

  Reality, Air, Political

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• Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

  Claude McKay

  Development, Plant, Grows

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• Si hemos de morir, muramos noblemente.

  Claude McKay

  Dies, Ifs

  Claude McKay (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.

  Claude McKay

  Hate, Heart, Long

  Claude McKay, William Maxwell (2004). “Complete Poems”, p.162, University of Illinois Press

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• Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,
  I shun all signs of anchorage, because
  The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.

  Claude McKay

  Adventure, Zest, Law

  Claude McKay, William Maxwell (2004). “Complete Poems”, p.191, University of Illinois Press

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• And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

  Claude McKay

  Way, Hungry, Familiar

  Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett (1937). “A Long Way from Home”, p.94, Rutgers University Press

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• Sobre las ropas detrás del conventillo, Que cuelgan como fantasmas suspendidos de las líneas, Uniendo cada piso, pero a cada uno indiferente, Incongruente y extraña la luz de la luna brilla.

  Claude McKay

  Clothes, Shining, Lines

  Claude McKay (1953). “Selected poems”

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• The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.

  Claude McKay

  Night, Bird

  Claude McKay (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.

  Claude McKay

  Blood, Red, December

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