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Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

I.Don't trace out your profile--forget your side view--all that is outer stuff.II.Look for your othe...

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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were...

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

All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.

Border of a Dream: Selected Poems

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is mad...

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Campos de Castilla

Hope says: one dayyou will see her, if you will only wait.Despair says:all you have left of her is y...

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Campos de Castilla

When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingAnd rested, which rest it certainly deserved,Night now accompani...

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Times Alone: Selected Poems

While the burning fish is tracing his arcnear the cypress, beneath the highest blue of all,and the b...

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Times Alone: Selected Poems

Like an abandoned dog who cannot finda smell or a track and roamsalong the roads, with no road, like...

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Times Alone: Selected Poems

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

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Antonio Machado

Poet

Born: 1875-07-26

Died: 1939-02-22

Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939), known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the literary movement known as the Generation of '98.More