Spanish Poet Quotes

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Antonio Machado

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Francisco de Quevedo

Martial

Luis de Góngora

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

José Bergamín

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

Antonio Machado

I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.

Kings are the judges of the earth, and sages the judges of kings.

Solomon ibn Gabirol

Island of grace, of freshness and of joy, Golden Age of children; always I could find you in my life, a sea of mourning; let your breeze lend me its lyre high and sometimes senseless like the trill of the lark in the white sun of morning.
I have never written nor will I ever write anything for children, because I believe the child can read the books that grownups read, with some few exceptions that come to everyone's mind. There are of course exceptions too for men and for women.

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Let me go warm and merry still;
And let the world laugh, an' it will.

Luis de Góngora

The chief characteristic of folly is that it mistakes itself for wisdom.

Fray Luis de León

War rages, horrid war
Even in our bones; our double nature sounds
With armed discord.

What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Never mind, at some time,
God knows where,
we see the faces
uncovered.

Juan José Cuadros Pérez

Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.

We can be stabbed without being flattered, but we're rarely flattered without being stabbed.

Francisco de Quevedo